Naomi Knight
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Knight is involved.
Articles
2014 Empathic practices in client-centred psychotherapies: Displaying understanding and affiliation with clients Discourses of Helping Professions, Graf, Eva-Maria, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy (eds.), pp. 33–57 | Article
We explore how client-centred empathy is practiced within a specific interaction type: troubles telling sequences. Building on the work of Carl Rogers, who viewed empathy as a form of understanding that privileges the client’s point of view, empathy is examined as an interactional achievement in… read more
2012 Working to keep aligned in psychotherapy: Using nods as a dialogic resource to display affiliation Dialogue and Representation, Létourneau, Alain and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 9–27 | Article
We examine therapist nods in terms of how they display and maintain affiliation with clients in contexts in which therapists reformulate clients’ prior talk. We found that therapist nods functioned to maintain affiliation with clients irrespective of whether clients aligned (e.g., confirmed) or… read more