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4 - Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
University of Northampton
Ermeneutica sistemica e intenzionalità nella conversazione terapeutica.
The study explored the attribution of intentionality to symptomatic behaviors used as a specific factor of therapeutic change to restore the patients’ sense of agency in systemic therapy. We hypothesized that: 1) symptoms are generally explained resorting to causes; 2) systemic therapists introduce more reasons.
An adapted version of F.Ex (Malle, 2000) was used to code the intentionality of all explanations concerning 2 main areas (symptoms and relation issues) provided by 12 patients and their therapist in the first two sessions of systemic individual therapy.
The loglinear analysis performed on explanations confirmed our hypotheses and clinical implications are discussed.
