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Publication details [#59019]

Bonnin, Juan Eduardo. 2014. To speak with the other's voice: reducing asymmetry and social distance in professional–client communication. Journal of multicultural discourses 9 (2) : 149–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disadvantage | doctor-patient conversation | power | psychiatric disturbance | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores adoption of typical features of interlocutors' ‘voice’ in mental health care admission interviews at a Buenos Aires public hospital. Whereas patients try to decrease asymmetry despite social distance, psychotherapists try to reduce social distance yet preserve asymmetry.