TY - JOUR
T1 - The emergence and management of embodied dilemmas in psychotherapeutic interaction
T2 - a qualitative study
AU - Trasmundi, Sarah Bro
AU - Jensen, Thomas Wiben
AU - Bruun, Henriette
AU - Kjølbye Wrist, Katharina
AU - Steffensen, Sune
PY - 2023/1/30
Y1 - 2023/1/30
N2 - In this article we take an embodied and interactional perspective on how ethical dilemmas are being managed in situated interaction. Accordingly, we aim at linking ethical principles to real-life clinical practices in order to show how ethical dilemmas are less about abstract decision-making, and more about reasoning constrained by inter-bodily dynamics, affect and adaptive behaviour in situated interaction. We present two real-life cases of ethical dilemma management in a psychotherapeutic setting. We use the innovative method, Cognitive Event Analysis, to investigate the interaction in which the dilemmas emerge. The analytical findings, we claim, pave the way for a more embodied code of ethics, which, in turn, has consequences for the theoretical assumptions that inform the models and guidelines for action in practice.
AB - In this article we take an embodied and interactional perspective on how ethical dilemmas are being managed in situated interaction. Accordingly, we aim at linking ethical principles to real-life clinical practices in order to show how ethical dilemmas are less about abstract decision-making, and more about reasoning constrained by inter-bodily dynamics, affect and adaptive behaviour in situated interaction. We present two real-life cases of ethical dilemma management in a psychotherapeutic setting. We use the innovative method, Cognitive Event Analysis, to investigate the interaction in which the dilemmas emerge. The analytical findings, we claim, pave the way for a more embodied code of ethics, which, in turn, has consequences for the theoretical assumptions that inform the models and guidelines for action in practice.
U2 - 10.7146/qhc.v2i1.132866
DO - 10.7146/qhc.v2i1.132866
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2597-1417
VL - 2
SP - 41
EP - 57
JO - Qualitative Health Communication
JF - Qualitative Health Communication
IS - 1
ER -