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Publication details [#48541]

Leudar, Ivan, Wes Sharrock, Jacqueline Hayes and Shirley Truckle. 2008. Psychotherapy as a “structured immediacy”. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (5) : 863–885.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper explores how circumstances are systematically included in the analysis of social interactions, offering an example of how psychoanalytic child psychotherapists construe group therapy occasions. Using work of Austin (1961, 1962) and Anscombe (1957), it is argued that social interactions happen "here-and-now”, whilst also being situated in participants’ lives and social arrangements in general.