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      Doing-together with words: the sequential unfolding of a moment of meeting in a psychoanalytic therapy session

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          Changes in psychoanalytic therapy have been traditionally attributed to self-knowledge (insight) in the client, provided by the therapist’s interpretations. In recent years there has been growing realization that such changes can also be the consequence of the development of new forms of relatedness through client–therapist interaction, particularly through special intersubjective moments called moments of meeting. Drawing on the methods and findings of Conversation Analysis about the sequential organization of psychotherapeutic interaction, this single-case study examines the unfolding of a moment of meeting in the final session of a brief psychoanalytic therapy in Peru (in Spanish) with a female client victim of domestic violence. Our analysis shows that the moment of meeting, which resolves a challenge to the intersubjective relationship posed by a now moment, comes about interactionally through a sequentially accomplished shared practice of co-animation. In this sequence the client, who had previously assumed a passive role, exercises her own agency to assume an active role, which the therapist ratifies through his response. In this way, a momentary but significant transformation in the here-and-now relationship between client and therapist occurs. Thus, our analysis contributes to the understanding of how a transformation of relation—the transitory emergence of a new form of relatedness—can take place in and through sequentially organized talk and action in psychotherapy. Our study also sheds light on the role of language in moments of meeting, as the moment of meeting in our segment does not occur in parallel with the exchange of linguistic utterances between client and therapist, but through the exchange of such linguistic utterances and through the sequence of actions carried out by that exchange. In this way, the sequential doing-together with words leads to a moment of meeting, bringing about change, at least momentarily, in the implicit ways-of-being-with-others of the client.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                07 December 2023
                2023
                : 14
                : 1205500
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru , Lima, Peru
                [2] 2Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru , Lima, Peru
                [3] 3Escuela de Posgrado, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru , Lima, Peru
                Author notes

                Edited by: Claudio Scarvaglieri, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

                Reviewed by: Michael B. Buchholz, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany; Peter Muntigl, Simon Fraser University, Canada

                *Correspondence: Marcos Herrera, mpherrer@ 123456pucp.edu.pe
                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205500
                10748479
                38144981
                f21f058d-14fc-4205-a444-89f9fe683419
                Copyright © 2023 Herrera, Ugarte, Vásquez-Torres, Durand and Sánchez.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 13 April 2023
                : 11 September 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 65, Pages: 14, Words: 10289
                Funding
                This article is a result of a research project supported by a grant from the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association in cooperation with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru: IPA 2021 Research Grant Application Number 72. The publication of this article has been supported by a fund granted by the DFI (Dirección de Fomento a la Investigación) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the FAI (Fondo de Apoyo a la Investigación): FAI-087-2023.
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                Psychology
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                Psychology for Clinical Settings

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                conversation analysis,psychotherapy interaction,psychoanalysis,moments of meeting,therapeutic relationship,transformative sequence,transformation of relation,linguistic pragmatics

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