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Mastering the clinical conversation : language as intervention
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- 저자명Villatte, Matthieu,Villatte, Jennifer L,Hayes, Steven C
- 학회/출판사/기관명New York: The Guilford Press, 2016
- 출판년도2016
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- 소개/요약All psychological interventions rely on the power of language. Even those that emphasize silence, employ imagery, induce hypnosis, or conduct exercises to promote direct contact with the here and now do so by engaging language processes. Psychotherapists rarely intervene directly in their clients' lives—they create change largely through conversation. Effective therapists, by nature and by training, are skilled at using language; speaking articulately, listening with attention and understanding, and promoting psychological well-being through dialogue. Language builds alliance, provokes insight, and expresses empathy; it teaches concepts, shapes new skills, and guides therapeutic exercises. Language isn't just a vehicle for therapeutic intervention— it is intervention. Not only is language an essential tool for promoting positive change in psychotherapy, it is involved in the development and maintenance of most forms of psychopathology. Language orients us to what we should be aware of, and as soon as we are aware, we begin to describe, evaluate, and analyze. Our direct experience of emotions, thoughts, memories, learning experiences, and bodily sensations become quickly interwoven with reasons and narratives that influence us as much as the experiences themselves. The power of language to transform human experience is evident in most clinicians' caseloads. Language can transform a harmless object into a terrifying threat; imagination can become indistinguishable from reality; a memory of a long-gone trauma can open fresh wounds; anticipation of an improbable outcome can become a barrier to happiness. The ways we think and speak about our experience can take us away from the world we live in and trap us in an ever-expanding world within our own minds. Without language processes, we could not worry about catastrophic outcomes,
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