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Constructing Nonagency at the Beginning of Psychotherapy : The 10DT model
Jarl WahlströmHeidi ToivonenKatja Kurrisubject
050103 clinical psychologyLinguistics and Languagehuman agencyPsychotherapistSocial Psychologymedia_common.quotation_subjectongelmapuhe050109 social psychologyReading (process)Agency (sociology)Developmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSession (computer science)discourse analysista515media_common05 social sciencestoimijuusopen readingpsykoterapiadiskurssianalyysipsychotherapyLinguistic analysisPsychologylinguistic analysisdescription
This study examined how nine clients discursively constructed non-agency in their first session of individual psychotherapy. With open reading and linguistic analysis of the transcribed first sessions, combined with theory-based considerations, we created a model of discursive means for ascribing agentic and non-agentic positions, the 10 Discursive Tools model (10DT). There was large variability in how the tools functioned to create the impression of problematic agency, and the clients could not be classified according to their tool use patterns. The study shows the potential of the 10DT model for the detailed examination of presentations of “not-being-able” produced by psychotherapy clients. peerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-28 | Journal of Constructivist Psychology |