Affiliation:
1. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
2. Jagiellonian University
Abstract
Abstract
In this paper we examine how couple and family therapists, in accounting for the moments of their first
therapeutic encounters identified as meaningful, invoke asymmetric affiliations with their clients in the
Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) dialogues. Applying Conversation Analysis and drawing on Membership Categorization Analysis, we
analyze how these invoked (dis)affiliations are constructed in the fine interactional details of the interview and in/through the
categories mobilized by the participants. The findings show therapists’ explicit affiliation with one spouse and often
concurrently disaffiliation with the other in yet another interactive format. Consequently, the asymmetric affiliations are
further strengthened by remaining unrecognized, unaddressed and ultimately unreflected in the IPR dialogue. The interviewer’s key
role in promoting or constraining the therapist’s recognition of the asymmetric relations is discussed.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies