Resistance in couples counselling: Sequences of talk that disrupt progressivity and promote disaffiliation

Muntigl, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.01.003

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“…This evolvement incorporates what in clinical language is called "psychotherapeutic process" (see also Voutilainen, Rossano, & Peräkylä, 2018). In the context of couples therapy, Muntigl (2013) showed comparable evolvement over sessions: in this case, an increase of the counselors' third-position disaffiliation to clients resisting answers.…”

Section: Therapeutic Projects Across Sequences and Sessionsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy: Identifying Transformative Sequences

Peräkylä

2019

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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The starting point of conversation analytical research on psychotherapy was in Kathy Davis's work on problem reformulations in the mid 1980s. Since then there has been a growing body of analysis of psychotherapy, based on the close, sequential relations between adjacent utterances. Through examples drawn from CA studies on psychotherapy in the past decade, this review shows that sequential relations between utterances enable a process of transformation of experience. This process pertains to referents, emotion, and momentary relations between the therapist and the client. The utterance-by-utterance transformation contributes to the process of change in more macroscopic time, spanning the continuum of psychotherapeutic sessions. The recent developments of CA research on psychiatric consultants will also be discussed. Data are in Finnish and English.

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Section: Therapeutic Projects Across Sequences and Sessionsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy: Identifying Transformative Sequences

Peräkylä

2019

Research on Language and Social Interaction

118

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“…To gather information, therapists can start multiple enquiry sequences (Bercelli, Rossano and Viaro, 2008;2013), via open-ended questions or other actions eliciting clients' extended (multi-unit) tellings about their own events and experiences. Enquiry sequences can be followed by the therapist's reinterpretations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Following the lead of researchers of learning in interaction (e.g. Mondada and Pekarek Doehler, 2004;Martin, 2004;Melander and Sahlström, 2009), CA of psychotherapy has begun to track longitudinal processes in psychotherapy (Voutilainen, Peräkylä and Ruusuvuori., 2011;Peräkylä 2011Peräkylä , 2012Bercelli, Rossano and Viaro, 2013;Muntigl 2013). In the current chapter, based on the authors' empirical CA work on cognitive therapy, systemic therapy and psychoanalysis, we will discuss how the participants of a psychotherapy orient to the longitudinal nature of their interaction, and how the emergence of change can be documented from the unfolding of the interaction itself.…”

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Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapeutic Change

Voutilainen

Rossano

Peräkylä

2018

Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction

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“…Research has already demonstrated that, to achieve an elaborate understanding of how therapeutic projects actually unfold over time, it is important to examine longer stretches of interaction, to ascertain whether certain therapeutic interventions are functioning in a more (or less) productive way (e.g., Voutilainen et al, 2011;Muntigl, 2013;Buchholz and Kächele, 2017). This paper has shown that a client's distress may need to be managed over many sequences and that the ways in which distress is dealt with in one interactional phase may occasion different responses from the therapist.…”

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Managing Distress Over Time in Psychotherapy: Guiding the Client in and Through Intense Emotional Work

Muntigl

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Clients who seek psychotherapeutic treatment have had personal experiences involving some form of distress. Although research has shown that the client's ability to experience and express painful emotions during therapy can have a therapeutic benefit, it has also been argued that displaying distress may convey a form of helplessness and vulnerability, and thus, clients may be reluctant to cast themselves in this light. Using the methods of conversation analysis, this paper explores how a client's upsetting experience is managed over the course of a single session of client-centered therapy. The main analytic focus will be on (1) the different therapist practices used to orient to the client's distress, (2) the varying forms of client opposition to the therapist's attempts to work with the distress, and (3) the context sensitivity of orienting to distress and how certain practices may be uniquely shaped by what had occurred in prior talk. It was found that, whereas certain types of therapist responses tended to be endorsed by the client, others were forcefully rejected as inappropriate displays of understanding or empathy. By focusing on repeated sequential episodes over time in which a client conveys distress, followed by the therapist's response, this paper sheds light on the interactional trajectory through which a client and therapist are able to resolve impasses to emotional exploration and to successfully secure extended and intense emotional work.

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Resistance in couples counselling: Sequences of talk that disrupt progressivity and promote disaffiliation

Cited by 66 publications

References 27 publications

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy: Identifying Transformative Sequences

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy: Identifying Transformative Sequences

Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapeutic Change

Managing Distress Over Time in Psychotherapy: Guiding the Client in and Through Intense Emotional Work

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