TRANSCRIPT ANALYSIS AS A POTENTIAL TOOL

 

IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

 

LEON A. ÊJAMES

 

 

Department of Psychology, Univ. of Hawaii

 

 

Hawaii Psychological Association

 

 

Annual Convention, Dec. 1982

 

 

This paper describes the procedures involved in analyzing transcripts or portions of talk in the therapy interview. Transcripts may be prepared in full through recording and transcribing, or they may be merely recorded and listened to, or they may be merely remembered quotations from clientsâ talk. This paper shows in particular how talk is analyzable into ãspeech actsä which have clearly discernable psychodynamic information about the clientsâ level of functioning interpersonally and intrapersonally. The method illustrated here is based on a system of thought developed by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1771) and developed for this purpose by me. The paper is designed to be a Îmini-lessonâ so that a prospective therapist or user may instantly decide whether it is useful or not. The following steps are involved in the use of this analytic system:

 

Step 1.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Study and learn CHART OF SYMPTOMS (table 5) which relates clientsâ discourse or talk to basic psycholinguistic functioning.

 

Step 2.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Select discourse segments (or units) that are of particular interest to you as therapist because of their ãpsychodynamicä import (such as clientsâ statements, comments, expressions, etc.)

 

Step 3.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Score selected discourse units using CHART OF SYMPTOMS (see illustration on p.6).

 

Step 4.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Retrain clients for each dysfunction youâve thus identified by focusing their attention on them and providing them with better alternatives (use Tables 1 through 4)

 

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