Conversation and psychotherapy

How Questioning Reveals Institutional Answers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5965261
AutoresMariaelena Bartesaghi (University of South Florida, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas153-177
Data de publicação2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445608100942
OpenAlexW1966666937
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas39

By analyzing session exchanges and questionnaires administered to family therapy clients, this article examines questioning as conversational practice grounded in institutional goals that are therapist-directed and therapist-conceived. In their manifestation in talk and text, therapeutic questions function to replace client accounts with the nosological accounts of institutional psychiatry. The analysis illuminates three ways in which questioning works in the session and then locates these in therapy's professional and institutional logic. A critical reflection on psychotherapy's questioning practices in a social context concludes the article

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Psychotherapist · Communication · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications