The Recording of Psychotherapeutic Sessions Its Value in Teaching, Research, and Treatment

Bierer, Joshua; Ström-Olsen, R.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(48)91569-4

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“…Indeed, the therapeutic session became an apparatus, that is, ‘a whole set of relations, practices, people, and technologies’ (Sterne, 2003: 225), encompassing control room technicians, stenographers, research assistants, and outside colleagues, supervisors, and students. By and by, psychotherapists were required to delve into technical issues previously outside their professional purview, from collecting chips created during phonographic recording (Covner, 1942a) to mending snapped recording wire (Bierer and Ström-Olsen, 1948). Recording thus paved the way for the objectification of the self-in-treatment by virtue of the split between the psychological and somatic.…”

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“…While such insights were intended exclusively for therapists’ ears, a few practitioners opted to share recordings with their patients, typically as a means to demonstrate to them the progress made. When patients were treated with hypnosis or administrated sodium amytal as part of narcoanalysis, recordings provided evidence of their subconscious material (Bierer and Ström-Olsen, 1948; Freed, 1948). What became known as the ‘playback technique’ occasioned yet another split within the therapeutic setting, this time making the patient both speaker and listener, alongside the therapist.…”

Section: Playing Back Therapymentioning

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The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy

Levy-Landesberg

Pinchevski

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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This article explores the relationship between psychotherapy and sound reproduction technologies from the early 20th century to the present. Subscribing to a media genealogy approach, it traces the changing status of the recorded voice in therapy as set against broader transformations in the field of mental health. Delving into the recorded voice’s diverse applications across psychotherapeutic approaches, it demonstrates how technology worked to unravel the temporal and spatial formations of the therapeutic setting, thereby unsettling established hierarchies, terminologies, and techniques while at the same time supporting the integrity of the therapeutic situation. The article points to sound media’s capacity to bifurcate the voice into somatic and expressive elements and reassemble them in various configurations, thereby producing the ‘psyche’ through alternative access points. The story of the recorded voice in therapy provides a glimpse into the way technological affordances inform therapeutic concepts and practices, which in turn implement technology in study, training, and treatment.

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The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy

Levy-Landesberg

Pinchevski

2022

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“…This recording technology enabled Bierer and Ström-Olsen to introduce new methods of treatment, such as leaving patients alone with the phonograph to record and study their own behaviour. They also used magnetic tape recording as a means of self-confrontation, to correct the patient's memory, and to retrospectively confront patients with subconscious material they had produced under narco-analysis (Bierer and Ström-Olsen 1948).…”

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How to turn interior monologues inside out: epistemologies, methods, and research tools in the long twentieth century

Tkaczyk

2020

Sound Studies

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This paper addresses the interior monologue as a "sonic thing" whose elusive nature prompted a wide range of research initiatives in the long twentieth century. Neurophysiologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and linguists shared an increasing interest in what humans hear when talking and listening to themselves. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, they agreed that "interior monologues" or related phenomena such as "inner speech" are crucial to human cognition, the psyche, and the faculty of speech. And all of them saw these phenomena as constituting important theorems in their own disciplines. In order to investigate interior monologues, the scholars and scientists presented here attempted to turn them inside out, making creative use of a great variety of research tools. A pivotal figure in this respect was the Stanford-based linguist Ruth Hirsch Weir, who, in 1962, produced magnetic tape recordings of her son's "crib talk". Interpreting the infant monologue as a precursor of the interior monologues of adults, Hirsch Weir brought together seemingly irreconcilable work on "inner language" by Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, and Roman Jakobson. In turn, her study inspired a series of further research initiatives -among them Jacques Lacan's work on the "autonomous play of speech" in children and adults.

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Sound-film recording of psychoanalytic therapy: a therapist’s experiences and reactions

Carmichael¹

1966

Methods of Research in Psychotherapy

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The Recording of Psychotherapeutic Sessions Its Value in Teaching, Research, and Treatment

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The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy

The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy

How to turn interior monologues inside out: epistemologies, methods, and research tools in the long twentieth century

Sound-film recording of psychoanalytic therapy: a therapist’s experiences and reactions

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