Language in Psychotherapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Robert L. Russell

      Pages 1-9

3. Content-Category Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Content-Category Analysis

      • Louis A. Gottschalk

      Pages 13-70

   3. Concept Analysis of Language in Psychotherapy

      • Julius Laffal

      Pages 71-106

4. Intersubjective Category Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Snyder’s Classification System for Therapeutic Interviews

      • William U. Snyder

      Pages 109-129

   3. Verbal Response Modes as Intersubjective Categories

      • William B. Stiles

      Pages 131-170

5. Extralinguistic Category Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. A Speech Interaction System

      • Joseph D. Matarazzo, Donald J. Kiesler, Arthur N. Wiens

      Pages 173-212

   3. Everyday Disturbances of Speech

      • George F. Mahl

      Pages 213-269

6. Linguistic Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. The Analysis of Natural Language in Psychological Treatment

      • Michael J. Patton, Naomi M. Meara

      Pages 273-301

   3. Ethnography and the Vicissitudes of Talk in Psychotherapy

      • Roy D. Pea, Robert L. Russell

      Pages 303-338

7. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339

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   2. Psychotherapeutic Discourse

      • Robert L. Russell

      Pages 341-351

8. Back Matter

   Pages 353-357

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This book of original contributions presents investigations of psycho­ therapautic interaction. While the methodological strategies and the­ oretical orientations of these investigations are notably diverse, the utterance-by-utterance analysis of client-therapist dialogue provides a strong commonality of interest and a particularly productive perspective from which the process of psychotherapy can be illuminated. It is hoped that the contributions selected, and the problems with which they are occupied, will make evident the rich possibilities such a perspective has to offer. It should be noted, however, that the present volume is not a com­ pendium: any effort to be exhaustive would be thwarted by considera­ tions of length alone. Thus, certain omissions were inevitable. It is hoped that the interested reader will use the extensive references to become acquainted with the works not here included. Whatever effort I extended as editor and contributor to this volume could not have been undertaken without the lifelong spirit of support of my parents, Selma S. and Jay F. Russell. I dedicate my contribution to them.

• Psychotherapeut
• Therapeut
• interaction
• psychotherapy
• literary diction

• New School for Social Research, New York, USA

  Robert L. Russell

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