Acceptance and Alliance : A Phase of the Psychotherapeutic Process and the Linguistic Analysis of the Session
Published 2024-04-04
Keywords
- acceptancealliance, ambiguity, vagueness, language
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Abstract
A fragment of a psychotherapeutic session is exposed here and explained along the continuum of the therapeutic process and the bond between professional and patient: in particular, the core of the investigation consists of the analysis of the functional concepts of acceptance and alliance, an analysis aimed at re-examining of methods, relations and objectives. The originality of the work, in fact, is revealed in the analysis of the language system within which the figures of speech take shape. Repetitions and their semantic function, ambiguity and vagueness as elements of the approximation of meaning and other phenomena of communicative intention are indicators of the interaction between the organism and the environment of which the authors take care, in an attempt to illustrate a different path of self-realization, in which discomfort can appear in the forms of awareness.
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