Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism
Four couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman’s micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in de...
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| author | Bernadetta Janusz Jörg R. Bergmann Feliks Matusiak Anssi Peräkylä |
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| description | Four couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman’s micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in detail episodes in which clients resist to answer a therapist’s question, block or dominate the development of the conversation’s topic, or conspicuously display their interactional independence. These activities are interpreted as a pattern of controlling practices that were prompted by threats that the first couple therapy consultation imposes upon the clients’ self-image. The results were discussed in the light of contemporary psychiatric discussions of narcissism; the authors suggest that beyond its conceptualization as a personality disorder, narcissism should be understood as a pattern of interactional practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-457a5b48f8be4d91bea9113d6ed3d0cb2022-12-21T22:04:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-01-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842596842Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With NarcissismBernadetta Janusz0Jörg R. Bergmann1Feliks Matusiak2Anssi Peräkylä3Department of Family Therapy and Psychosomatics, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, PolandFaculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Colleague Kraków, PolandFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandFour couple therapy first consultations involving clients with diagnosed narcissistic problems were examined. A sociologically enriched and broadened concept of narcissistic disorder was worked out based on Goffman’s micro-sociology of the self. Conversation analytic methods were used to study in detail episodes in which clients resist to answer a therapist’s question, block or dominate the development of the conversation’s topic, or conspicuously display their interactional independence. These activities are interpreted as a pattern of controlling practices that were prompted by threats that the first couple therapy consultation imposes upon the clients’ self-image. The results were discussed in the light of contemporary psychiatric discussions of narcissism; the authors suggest that beyond its conceptualization as a personality disorder, narcissism should be understood as a pattern of interactional practices.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596842/fullcouple therapyconversation analysisnarcissismindependencevulnerabilitysequence |
| spellingShingle | Bernadetta Janusz Jörg R. Bergmann Feliks Matusiak Anssi Peräkylä Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism Frontiers in Psychology couple therapy conversation analysis narcissism independence vulnerability sequence |
| title | Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |
| title_full | Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |
| title_fullStr | Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |
| title_short | Practices of Claiming Control and Independence in Couple Therapy With Narcissism |
| title_sort | practices of claiming control and independence in couple therapy with narcissism |
| topic | couple therapy conversation analysis narcissism independence vulnerability sequence |
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