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1Laboratory of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Frontiers in Psychology
|November 30, 2020
Summary
This study explores how psychodynamic psychotherapy uses talk-in-interaction, nonverbal cues, and physiological arousal to facilitate meaning-making and emotional processing for therapeutic change.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Linguistics
- Psychotherapy Research
Background:
- Psychotherapy involves complex meaning-making across verbal and nonverbal channels.
- Understanding the interplay of explicit and implicit processes is crucial for therapeutic efficacy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze a psychodynamic psychotherapy session focusing on affect expression and management.
- To identify interactive events that drive change in semantic and procedural domains.
- To explore correlations between interactional patterns and physiological arousal.
Main Methods:
- Discursive analysis of clinical dialogue to examine joint meaning-construction and affect sharing.
- Detailed attention to nonverbal displays of affiliation and affect.
- Measurement of client and therapist autonomic arousal (heart rate).
Main Results:
- Identified key interactive events promoting change through meaning-making.
- Observed connections between conversational patterns and physiological responses.
- Demonstrated the value of integrating qualitative and quantitative data.
Conclusions:
- Discursive analysis enriched by nonverbal cues and physiological measures offers deeper insights into psychotherapy.
- Combining language-based analysis with embodied quantitative data enhances understanding of therapeutic processes.
- This interdisciplinary approach illuminates the mechanisms of change in psychotherapy.
Keywords:
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