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Attività in alcuni generi di psicoterapia
Full text linkThe main aim of our paper is to contribute to the outline of a general inventory of activities in psychotherapy, as a step towards a description of overall conversational organizations of diff erent therapeutic approaches. From the perspective of Conversation Analysis, we describe some activities commonly occurrring in a corpus of sessions conducted by cognitive and relational-systemic therapists. Two activities appear to be basic: (a) inquiry: therapists elicit information from patients on their problems and circumstances; (b) reworking: therapists say something designed as an elaboration of what patients have previously said, or as something that can be grounded on it; and patients are induced to confi rm/disprove and contribute to the elaboration. Furthermore, we describe other activities, which turn out to be auxiliary to the basic ones: storytelling, procedural arrangement, recalling, noticing, teaching. We fi nally show some ways in which these activities can be integrated through conversational interaction
Clients' responses to therapists' reinterpretations
No full textThis chapter is based on a corpus of about 100 sessions, mainly audio-taped, run in Italy by cognitive and relational-systemic therapists.
We have identified a type of action, which we call re-interpretation, by which the therapist proposes his or her own version of the client's events and experiences, the therapist's version being grounded in another version of them previously provided by the client.
We locate the placement of therapists' re-interpretations in the overall structural organization of the therapies of our corpus. We also briefly compare them to formulations and psychoanalytic interpretations. This leads to the main concern of the chapter, which is clients' responses to re-interpretations. We identify some types of clients' responses and a corresponding array of procedural features, and discuss their import to the therapeutic process.
In recent Conversation Analytic research on psychotherapy, clients' responses to therapists' interventions have often been analyzed in terms of acceptance vs. rejection of or resistance to them. This was so both where clients respond to formulations and to psychoanalytic interpretations. The same tack has been followed in research dealing with other similar phenomena, e.g. clients' responses to experts' formulations in medical settings where mental-health talk routinely occurs. Our tack is slightly different. Beyond the still-useful dimension of clients' acceptance vs. rejection or resistance, our findings point to a different dimension: we distinguish more active clients' responses, which contribute further relevant contents to the ongoing elaboration of their own events, from more passive ones, which do not. Special analytical attention is given to a kind of clients' responses, namely extended agreements, through which clients provide autobiographical material as evidence accounting for their agreement with the therapists' re-interpretations. We discuss how both participants orient to such responses and how clients' actions achieved through them contribute to some important tasks of the therapeutic work
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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