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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • The patient's lived experience is often difficult to articulate.
  • Language is a key tool in psychoanalytic therapy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the role of specific discourse types in revealing patient truths.
  • To understand how language facilitates the experience of truth in analytic sessions.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of discourse patterns in psychoanalytic sessions.
  • Exploration of direct discourse, tangential discourse, and discourse of non sequiturs.

Main Results:

  • Certain discourse forms enable patients to access and express previously incommunicable truths.
  • The truth experienced in analysis is embedded in both narrative and its disjunctions.

Conclusions:

  • Discourse analysis is vital for understanding the therapeutic process.
  • Linguistic disjunctions are as significant as narrative content in psychoanalysis.