TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring implicit mentalizing as an online process
AU - Fogtmann Fosgerau, Christina
AU - Schöps, Antje
AU - Bak, Poul Lundgaard
AU - Davidsen, Annette Sofie
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Therapists’ implicit mentalizing skills are essential in the treatment of mental disorders, and implicit mentalizing is considered a general social competence for understanding other people. However, no methods have been developed to tap into implicit mentalizing as a live or online process displayed in interactions. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how online implicit mentalizing processes can be explored by applying the method of conversation analysis (CA). CA uses a sequential approach to study the establishment of understanding in interactions between people. In this article, we show that a systematic exploration of implicit mentalizing processes can be done by applying this sequential approach and the underlying knowledge of CA on interactional phenomena and their functions and meanings. We demonstrate our method by thoroughly analyzing three extracts from recordings of dinner conversations at a residential care school. We make a theoretical link between mentalizing processes and the phenomenological understandings of intersubjectivity and empathy, and we suggest that this phenomenological understanding could develop the understanding of implicit mentalizing as a phenomenon. This would, in addition, be fully compatible with CA as a method for grasping implicit mentalization.
AB - Therapists’ implicit mentalizing skills are essential in the treatment of mental disorders, and implicit mentalizing is considered a general social competence for understanding other people. However, no methods have been developed to tap into implicit mentalizing as a live or online process displayed in interactions. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how online implicit mentalizing processes can be explored by applying the method of conversation analysis (CA). CA uses a sequential approach to study the establishment of understanding in interactions between people. In this article, we show that a systematic exploration of implicit mentalizing processes can be done by applying this sequential approach and the underlying knowledge of CA on interactional phenomena and their functions and meanings. We demonstrate our method by thoroughly analyzing three extracts from recordings of dinner conversations at a residential care school. We make a theoretical link between mentalizing processes and the phenomenological understandings of intersubjectivity and empathy, and we suggest that this phenomenological understanding could develop the understanding of implicit mentalizing as a phenomenon. This would, in addition, be fully compatible with CA as a method for grasping implicit mentalization.
KW - assessment of mentalizing
KW - conversation analysis
KW - empathy
KW - implicit mentalizing
KW - online mentalizing
KW - phenomenology
U2 - 10.1080/19012276.2017.1374204
DO - 10.1080/19012276.2017.1374204
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85029684637
VL - 70
SP - 129
EP - 145
JO - Nordic Psychology
JF - Nordic Psychology
SN - 1901-2276
IS - 2
ER -