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Direct linkDiNardo, A. Catherine; Schober, Michael F.; Stuart, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
In traditional psychoanalysis, patients recline on a couch in a way that prevents patients and analysts from seeing each other's faces. This has been argued to have significant effects, both positive and negative, on patients' treatment. The use of the couch creates an unusual communicative situation in which both parties are physically but not…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Patients, Clinical Psychology, Interaction Process Analysis
