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Introduction
Michael B. Buchholz currently works at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. Michael is a fully trained psychoanalyst, but a social scientist, too. Therefore, he teaches Social Psychoogy with a focus on human interaction from birth to later, in adult conversation, couples, groups. Herefrom he draws a line to the risky side of conversation: violence in talking, in and between groups, the preparation of civil wars by the media.
His methods are in part quantitave, but include Qualitative Social Research, Aesthetics and Conversation Analysis. One project is ' Listening to Words, Seeing Images - Metaphors of emotional involvement and the movement of the metaphor'. This is part of a larger project: to better understand the conversational details of the therapeutic process.
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The role of metaphors in therapeutic conversation is the topic of my paper. I use the theory of metaphor developed by cognitive linguists
Sometimes couples speak about a topic, but they know and listeners hear that they are dealing with a completely different topic - how is that possible? We use Conversation Analysis to study a couple's talk, videotaped segements are presented.
In psychotherapy the term "intervention" is not useful when we want to describe people who suffer from profound loneliness. "Doing We" is the more appropriate term. How this is done is documented in transcripts using Conversation Analysis.
To improve the provision of psychotherapy, many countries have now established clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of specific disorders and mental health concerns. These guidelines have typically been based on evidence from meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials with minimal consideration of findings from qualitative research desig...
"This fascinating bookmexplores in multifaceted ways perhaps the most fundamental of psychoanalytic ideas - why is the expression of experience in words so close to the core of what is uniqly human, and what happens when forces combine to prevent full manifestation of experience?...The result is an outstanding, highly original, and immensely valuab...
Introduction
The study focuses on the orientation to being recorded in therapy sessions, emphasizing that these practices adapt to specific circumstances and influence subsequent actions. The study suggests a way to deal with the insolubility of the “observer paradox”: to accept that observation has an impact on the observed, but that the recorder...
The Boston-Theory about Now-Moments, Moments-of-Meeting and "present moments" up-to-date has not founded this impressive theory in a precise transcript. What are these moments in detail? How to recognize them? There are strong affinities between the micro-analytic work of the Boston-Group and social-scientific conversation analysis, but there are d...
Zusammenfassung: Vorgestellt wird die qualitative Auswertung eines AbschlußinteIViews mit einem Schmerz-patienten. Die Prozeßphantasie wird als "schlafende" Metapher anhand genau spezifizierter Auswertungsregeln aus dem Transkript erschlossen. Abschnitte aus dem AbschlußinteIView mit dem Psychotherapeuten bestätigen die die Interaktion organisieren...
In therapeutic talk metaphors are used very frequently, but often without recognizing the metaphoric dimension. This book refers to the Cognitive Linguistic analysis of metaphors as delivered by George Lakoff and followers and tries to show how important not only use and invention of metaphors is, but also a sensitive analysis of metaphors in order...
This book studies a fully transcribed supervisory session by various methods. Conversation Analysis, analysis of metaphors, psychotherapy process model by Joseph Weiss, objective-hermeneutics (Oevermann), psychoanalysis used as a research method, with special attention to interaction, ecanctments and contexts and finally evaluates strengths and wea...
This book continues to analyze a full transcript of a supervison session. CCRT (Luborski), SASB (Lorna Smith Benjamin), Analysis of metaphors (Buchholz), clinical methods are presented and finally compared.
This presentaton shows the slides I used while speaking about a clinically relevant philosophical debate: how the EGO is defined and how these culturally wide spread unconscious definitions of the EGO participate in resulting loneliness. Alternatives to give up the opposition "EGO vs.WORLD"-constellation are lined out.
Over the last 102 years, a lot of discussion was being held about the psychoanalytic conception of the “death drive,” but still with inconclusive results. In this paper, we start with a brief review of Freud’s conception, followed by a comprised overview of its subsequent support or criticisms. The core of our argument is a systematic review of cur...
Phenomena of Balance, Rhythm and resonance are most relevant in human interaction and in culture. The authors contributing to this volume, from Freie Universität Berlin and International Psychoanalytic University (both Berlin, Germany) worked for 5 years together in order to analyze the same phenomena by methods of cultural anthropology, the study...
Larger chunks from psychotherapeutic cooperations are presented. Cooperation is studied in empirical psychotherapeutic process research as “working alliance” of which conceptual conflicts are outlined. I follow a proposal by Ginzburg and Poesio (2016) to micro-analyze hesitation markers as conversational equivalents to embodied pointing gestures. S...
Zusammenfassung
Mit dem neuen Psychotherapeutengesetz ist eine ernste Lage für die Psychoanalyse entstanden. Auf die eine Gefahr, die technologische Medizinalisierung (Buchholz 2017b, c; Buchholz und Kächele 2019), wurde häufig verwiesen. Eine wachsende Abhängigkeit von der klinischen Psychologie (Slunecko 2021) ist noch wenig gesehen. Wie kann sic...
This is a book about loneliness and solitude, with cultural, social, psychoanalytic perspectives, eminent contributions from musicologists describing loneliness in music, on social-mind theory in lone-wolfes, about places of loneliness, on the development of loneliness from childhood via adolescence to adulthood, referring to epidemiology of loneli...
the paper is about the difference between the philosophical concept of ratioanality and the psychoanalytic idea of rationalization
Zusammenfassung
Das Gespräch hat in jeder Psychotherapie eine zentrale Stellung. „Gesprächstherapie“ ist deshalb irreführend für eine besondere Art der Therapeutik. Im Folgenden wird von Analytiker(in) gesprochen, wenn diese Tradition gemeint ist, ansonsten von Therapeut(en) und Therapeutin. Probleme der Vertraulichkeit bei der Erforschung von Gesp...
Conversation analysis (CA) of children-adult—interaction in various contexts has become an established field of research. However, child therapy has received limited attention in CA. In child therapy, the general psychotherapeutic practice of achieving empathy faces particular challenges. In relation to this, our contribution sets out three issues...
This introduction summarizes what the book "Silence and Silencing in psychoanalysis" is about.
Warum haben auch freundliche und zivilisierte Menschen oft keine Probleme damit, Gewalt anzuschauen oder sogar selbst auszuüben? Wie kommt es zu gewalttätiger Herrschaft? Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger stellen wesentliche psychoanalytische und sozialpsychologische Perspektiven auf das Phänomen menschlicher Gewalt dar. Sie arbeiten Entstehung, sit...
Contributors to this book are scientists studying culture in detail, e.g. music, they are experienced clinicians, e.g. Donna Orange, and they are well known researchers, e.g. in conversation analysis. This broad range of contributors allows for a wide embracing of silence. And, what is more, for processes of making others silent, which is exemplifi...
Da die Zeitschrift Focus eine Titelgeschichte zu »Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung« brachte und wir ein paar Wochen zuvor schon zu dieser Trias zu arbeiten begonnen haben, wollen wir hier unsere Überlegungen kurz und knapp vorstellen; diese Trias hat mehr eine sozial-konstitutive als eine religiöse Funktion, die wir hier andeuten wollen.
Conversation analytic (CA) research is a fundamental base for every kind of researcher who wants to know what is going on in the treatment room.
However, CA uses a specific "jargon" which has to be "re-translated" into clinical thinking a n d to be considered as to clinical relevance.
As I have done some CA-research-projects
https://www.frontiers...
This paper starts with a short review of recent developments in psychotherapy process research and analyzes that a medical, or better, technical approach in process research – using words such as ‘intervention’, ‘effect’ and ‘outcome’ – is gradually acknowledged as only one side of psychotherapy; the other, more human or ‘humanistic’ side, is ‘conv...
"Science" and "profession" are not equal. Even in "hard core science" a distinction is made between the two. Professional treatment in psychotherapy cannot sufficiently be described as "application" or "consuming" of scientific knowledge. Professionals act upon very different stores of knowledge, only part of which are scientific results. Professio...
The affective bond between an infant and its caregiver, the so-called mother-infant tie, was analyzed by various reputable psychologists (e.g., Ainsworth, Clark, Erikson, Anna Freud, Harlow, Klein, Spitz, and Winnicott) but both the basic tenets of the bond and the importance of the trauma of maternal deprivation for personality disorders in adults...
This is a volume with many contributions from authors around psychoanalysis who think about how theory, practice and performance can be studied - theory is the "broom", a tool for cleaning up and bring order, while the "witch" is the person of the therapist/analyst, which is required to make the brroom work. Person + theory = practice - this can be...
Das Berufsfeld Psychotherapie erfährt gegenwärtig große Veränderungen.
Für die Forschung stellt sich unter anderem die Aufgabe, angeben zu
können, welche praxisrelevanten Kompetenzen in einem Studium und einer Weiterbildung
erworben werden sollen. Qualitative Zugänge bieten dabei besondere
Möglichkeiten, den Anforderungen an eine Forschung, die kli...
This paper gives an overview of psychoanalytic process research, which brings to light the complexity of psychotherapy sessions. This complexity is so rich that many instruments intended to make the process measurable failed in the past because they initially used a strategy of complexity reduction. This method however did not help to further our u...
Scenic understanding and conversational analysis. – Scenic understanding is compatible with philosophical persuasions that allocate a »scenic form of existence« to the human individual. This view encompasses interaction and hence also »conversation,«
which Freud regards as the starting point for all analysis. Here we can draw upon the resources of...
The chapter deals with two questions: a) What is meant, if we speak of repetition in clinical contexts? b) Is repetition c o m p u l s i o n the best concept to understand and explain what we mean when we talk about repetition?
I use segments of conversations (therapeutic, psychoanalytic and everyday) where repetitions seem to appear; but using con...
Immer wissen wir mehr, als wir zu sagen wissen. Das war eine der kli-nischen Beobachtungen, die Michael Balint (1957) klinisch zu nutzen suchte für die Supervision; er lehrte, darauf zu achten, was der einen Fall einbringende Supervisand gleichsam zwischen den Zeilen alles an Wissen über seinen Patienten mitbringe, was er darstelle, weil er es sich...
Der »relational turn« hat sich, ausgehend von starken Anstößen durch Steven Mitchell und seine Gruppe, seit den 1990er Jahren enorm ausgebreitet. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es in der Psychoanalyse eine stärkere Tendenz der Rückentwicklung zu non-relationalen Positionen, zum Kleinianismus und zu monadischen Denkformen. Ich diskutiere an einem Beispi...
Am Beispiel transkribierter Situationen aus psychoanalytischen und tiefenpsychologischen Behandlungen soll Kooperation im Behandlungszimmer genauer beschrieben werden. Wir unterscheiden verschiedene Komponenten von Kooperationen (Formen, Sequenzierungen, Funktionen, Mittel) und stellen Überlegungen zu den kognitiven Erfordernissen für Kooperationen...
Bei einer Konferenz vor mehr als 25 Jahren von Linguist_innen mit »hard core«-Naturwissenschaftler_innen formulierte einer der anwesenden Physiker prägnant: »You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it« (Bowers, 1990, S. 132). Wenn Metaphern schon in den Naturwissenschaf-ten diesen herausragenden Status als »Sehhilfe« z...
Abstract:My theory of “Psychotherapy as profession” published in 1999 forms the foundations of reflections on the current status: psychotherapy research has considerably rehabilitated the talking cure in its effect strengths and outcome measures. Neither the technical (interventions for disorders) nor medical metaphors (Stiles
and Shapiro 1989) coul...
The Boston-Theory about Now-Moments, Moments-of-Meeting and "present moments" up-to-date has not founded this impressive theory in a precise transcript. What are these moments in detail? How to recognize them? There are strong affinities between the micro-analytic work of the Boston-Group and social-scientific conversation analysis, but there are d...
Thesis is that in every act of personal communication the speaker's life history is present. It follows that therapeutic conversation cannot be handled by concepts like "intervention" and other technical terminology. A person's conversation cannot be reduced for technical or strategic purpose, if you want to do justice to human neediness and human...
As shown in my text in Part I of this volume, the Boston theory, Goffman, and some parts of mentalization theory all address the phenomenon of special “moments”. These theories value the role of conversation very differently. Goffman’s theory comprises most; conversation is what makes “moments” possible but “moments” are not the goal of every “talk...
The Boston-Theory about Now-Moments, Moments-of-Meeting and “present moments” up-to-date has not founded this impressive theory in a precise transcript. What are these moments in detail? How to recognize them? There are strong affinities between the microanalytic work of the Boston-Group and social-scientific conversation analysis, but there are de...
The video recording of a pedagogically awkward situation in a school class becomes the occasion of a conversation analysis (CA). At first, the conceptual instruments of CA appearing to be appropriate for the study of potentially violent situations are introduced. Then, the transcript is shown and four observations are discussed in detail. They focu...
We live in a multiple world as phenomenologists and gestalt theorists teach. Serious problems do not arise when entering another world, but if you do not find your way back. The theory of metaphor I exposed in many publications supports the gestalt theoretical view Stemberger proposed. My paper is a comment to his contribution.
Call-for-Papers for the "International Conference for Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy - 2019" (ICCAP-2019) which will take place at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin (Germany) June 20-23, 2019
Keynote Speakers are: Jörg Bergmann, Michael B. Buchholz, Peter Fonagy, Antje Gumz, Georgia Lepper, Ivan Leudar, Anssi Peräky...
Introduction to the volume 2/2018 of "International Forum of Psychoanalysis", edited together with Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, topic "Teaching Psychoanalysis"
The cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor is used to create a research method. Metaphors are widely used in public discourse and in private conversations. They have a strong impact on how we view the world. Metaphors should be recognizes as influential tools in psychotherapy process research, too.
Supervision is widely used in many fields of professional practice. However, what happens in supervision is rarely studied in detail. Here, a transcript of a supervision session (group) is made the base for various analysis with methods from psychotherapy process research (e.g.CCRT, SASB) and qualitative methods (conversation analysis, metaphor ana...
Metaphors are highly informative in order to understand worldviews - in public discourse and in private talk. In psychotherapeutic conversation the task to change a person's metaphors - of self, of others, of practices and of the world - is a highly relevant task. The method is described based on the cognitive-linguistic theory of metaphor. This th...
Family therapy has a strong origin in psychoanalysis. The "relational turn" made it possible to conceptualize therapeutic work with families and to study family therapy sessions inspired by narration analysis, metaphor analysis and conversation analysis. Based on the detailed study of many transcribed family therapy sessions the book presents a the...
Introduction
In relation to the psychotherapeutic process, studies have investigated the influence of personality variables (such as socio-economic background, attachment styles, status differences, race, gender) on the one hand, and training orientations (such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, psychodynamic, gestalt, systemic), on the other, but res...
Two parallel strands developed since the start of the century in psychoanalysis. One was the relational turn initiated by Steven Mitchell (Mitchell, 1988, 1998) and his many inspiring and inspired co-workers (Aron, 2006; Hoffman, 1999, 2006; Knoblauch, 2007), just to mention a few of those authors whose enormous influence in demystifying some psych...
Gerade im Umgang mit dem Geheimen kann sich der Anspruch der Psychotherapie bewähren, ein Ort der Offenheit zu sein. Doch wer in ein Geheimnis »eingeweiht« wird, erlebt das nicht selten als persönliche Herausforderung oder als Grenzfall für die therapeutische Haltung. Dabei erscheinen die Therapeuten in ihrer Identität als Frau oder Mann zuweilen k...
Independent of theoretical orientation therapies of all kind are talk-in-interaction . Influential overall conceptualizations (as e.g. intervention) belong to a certain model of medicalizing the psychotherapeutic endeavor. Talk-in-interaction is the base for applying Conversation Analysis (CA) in psychotherapeutic process research. CA is a powerful...
We present the results of further analys of 152nd sessions of the exemplary case of Amalia. We apply the methods of conversation analysis and the analysis of metaphors to the script of the audio record using the new system of transcription that reflects prosodic elements of dialogue in the analytic dyad. In this part of our study one can “see” a) a...
Der Begriff der Resonanz - ursprünglich eine akustische Metapher - wird derzeit vielfach verwendet, um sprachliche und leibliche, aber auch psychologische und physikalische Prozesse zu beschreiben. Es geht um die Bedingungen dafür, dass etwas oder jemand in Schwingung versetzt wird, und darum, welche Rückkopplungen durch solches Mitschwingen in Int...
Der Begriff der Resonanz - ursprünglich eine akustische Metapher - wird derzeit vielfach verwendet, um sprachliche und leibliche, aber auch psychologische und physikalische Prozesse zu beschreiben. Es geht um die Bedingungen dafür, dass etwas oder jemand in Schwingung versetzt wird, und darum, welche Rückkopplungen durch solches Mitschwingen in Int...
Der Begriff der Resonanz - ursprünglich eine akustische Metapher - wird derzeit vielfach verwendet, um sprachliche und leibliche, aber auch psychologische und physikalische Prozesse zu beschreiben. Es geht um die Bedingungen dafür, dass etwas oder jemand in Schwingung versetzt wird, und darum, welche Rückkopplungen durch solches Mitschwingen in Int...
Studies of the psychotherapeutic process using the methods of conversation analysis can make a substantial contribution to further development of psychotherapeutic practice. The case study of Amalia, particularly session 152, has been analysed many times using different methods that are briefly reviewed here. This paper is devoted to the analysis o...
Here we introduce the dissertation program PSAID (Postgraduate Studies for the Advancement of Individual Dissertations), conducted at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin, Germany. We tell stories about our experience: about a wish to sum up in a dissertation after long years of clinical practice what has been learnt in diving deep...
Meine 1999 veröffentliche Theorie „Psychotherapie als Profession“ wird Grundlage zu einer Reflexion auf den Stand von heute: Die psychotherapeutische Forschung hat die „talking cure“ in ihren Effektstärken und „Outcome“-Maßen erheblich rehabilitiert; weder die technische („Interventionen“ bei „Störungen“) noch die medizinische Metapher (Stiles und...
Der Begriff der Resonanz - ursprünglich eine akustische Metapher - wird derzeit vielfach verwendet, um sprachliche und leibliche, aber auch psychologische und physikalische Prozesse zu beschreiben. Es geht um die Bedingungen dafür, dass etwas oder jemand in Schwingung versetzt wird, und darum, welche Rückkopplungen durch solches Mitschwingen in Int...
Der Begriff der Resonanz - ursprünglich eine akustische Metapher - wird derzeit vielfach verwendet, um sprachliche und leibliche, aber auch psychologische und physikalische Prozesse zu beschreiben. Es geht um die Bedingungen dafür, dass etwas oder jemand in Schwingung versetzt wird, und darum, welche Rückkopplungen durch solches Mitschwingen in Int...
The contribution criticizes the circularity of the widespread psychological concept of aggression and proposes to replace it by a concept of violence. Hence, a meaningful way to talk of communicative violence becomes possible, the counterpart of which is communicative empathy. Illustrated by transcribed therapy sessions some situations with violen...
Die Anfänge der Forschung-Outcome, Outcome Die Sache mit der Psychotherapieforschung ist nicht einfach. Wie auch kann man etwas untersu-chen, das sich kaum abgrenzen lässt? Manchmal haben Gespräche mit dem Ehepartner, mit dem Friseur oder auch mit dem Barkeeper Wirkungen, die denen in der Psychotherapie recht nahe kom-men. Wir kennen dazu ein illus...
Übersicht: Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Objektivität von Forschung. Dieses große Stichwort erfreut sich in der Welt der professionellen Praxis ebenso großer Beliebtheit wie in der Welt der psychotherapeutischen For schung. Es wird gleichzeitig gefürchtet - alles dreht sich um sie, weil meist angenommen wird, mit »Objektivität« könnten alle Fr...
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A linguist, Prof. Dr. Uli Reich and I, wrote a paper about "Dancing Insight", analyzing a sequence of an female obsessive-compulsive patient with severe defense of affect isolation and how the therapist manages to regain emotionality in the interaction and then in the patient's voice. Analyzed with PRAAT, a standard linguistic tool for prosodiy-analysis.
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Michael B. Buchholz
There is the theory from the Boston Change Process Study Group (Daniel Stern, Ed Tronick and others) who describe therapeutic change as operated in "now moments" or "moments-of-meeting" which accumulate to "moments-of-change". I am interested to know if there is any precise analysis based of transcripts with fine-graded granularity?
Thanks, Michael
Atlas.ti has been developed in the tradition of "Grounded theory" but I feel there is more potential in it. I would like to be informed about experiences others have made with the program in the CA-field. If you have references or even copies of publications in this area it could help a lot.
