Conversation analysis and psychoanalysis : interpretation, affect, and intersubjectivity

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Patients' responses to interpretations : dialogue between conversation analysis and psychoanalytic theory

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A book review : Emanuel A. Schegloff, Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis. Vol. 1. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007 xvi+300pp

Book review. Reviewed work: Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis. Vol. 1. / Emanuel A. Schegloff. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Non peer reviewe

Analysing talk and text

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After interpretation. : Third position utterances in psychoanalysis

WOS:000299260300004Using 58 audio recorded sessions of psychoanalysis (coming from two analysts and three patients) as data and conversation analysis as method, this paper shows how psychoanalysts deal with patients’ responses to interpretations. After the analyst offers an interpretation, the patient responds: at that point (in the “third position”), the analysts recurrently modify the tenor of the description from what it was in the patients’ responses. They intensify the emotional valence of the description, or they reveal layers of the patients’ experience other than those that the patient reported. Both are usually accomplished in an implicit, non-marked way, and they discreetly index possible opportunities for the patients to modify their understandings of the initial interpretation. Although the patients usually do not fully endorse these modifications, the data available suggests that during the sessions that follow, the participants do work with the aspects of patients’ experience that the analyst highlighted. In discussion, it is suggested that actions that the psychoanalysts produce in therapy, such as choices of turn design in third position, may be informed by working understanding of the minds and mental conflicts of individual patients, alongside the more general therapeutic model of mind they hold to.Peer reviewe

Shifting the perspective after the patient's response to an interpretation

Psychoanalytic interpretation is normally understood as a sequence of two utterances: the analyst gives an interpretation and the patient responds to it. This paper suggests that, in the interpretative sequence, there is also a third utterance where psychoanalytic work takes place. This third interpretative turn involves the analyst’s action after the patient’s response to the interpretation. Using conversation analysis as method in the examination of audio-recorded psychoanalytic sessions, the paper will explicate the psychoanalytic work that gets done in third interpretative turns. Through it, the analyst takes a stance towards the patient’s understandings of the interpretation, which are shown in the patient’s response to the interpretation. The third interpretative turns on one hand ratify and accept the patient’s understandings, but, in addition to that, they also introduce a shift of perspective relative to them. In most cases, the shift of perspective is implicit but sometimes it is made explicit. The shifts of perspective bring to the foreground aspects or implications of the interpretation that were not incorporated in the patient’s response. They recast the description of the patient’s experience by showing new layers or more emotional intensity in it. The results are discussed in the light of Faimberg’s concept of listening to listening and Schlesinger’s concept of follow-up interpretation.Peer reviewe

Hope work in the care of seriously ill patients

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Invoking a hostile world: Discussing the patient´s future in AIDS counselling

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Validity in Research on Naturally Occurring Social Interaction

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Communicating and responding to diagnosis

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