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Publication details [#9536]
Trömel-Plötz, Senta and Dorothea Franck. 1977. I'm dead: A linguistic analysis of paradoxical techniques in psychotherapy. Journal of Pragmatics 1 (2) : 121–142. 
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Article in journal
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English
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On paradoxical responses given by psychotherapists to certain utterances of patients in which they exhibit their symptoms. (These responses are said to be paradoxical because they accept the symptom and thus contradict our expectations for normal reactions in conversation).