Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of… read more
In psychotherapy, the envisioned change in patient’s feelings, thoughts and behaviour often targets their self-experience. This threatens simultaneously the patient’s face and the therapeutic relation. We focus on face-threats in transformative question-answer sequences where therapists question… read more
Conversation analytical studies on emotion show how expression of emotion is part of the intersubjective experience. Emotions, however, are as much physiological as experiential events. Physiological processes pertaining to emotion involve changes in cardiovascular activity, in the activation of… read more