“You know it, how I feel, I mean you just did it:” The emergence of we-ness through re-enactment in psychotherapy

• DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2019-2017
• Publication Date: 2019-12-18T09:02:42Z
• Authors: Thomas Wiben Jensen; Sarah Bro Trasmundi; Marie Skaalum Bloch; Sune Vork Steffensen
• Keywords: Reciprocal; Phenomenon; Conversation Analysis; Intersubjectivity

Abstract This article explores the nature and trajectory of a shared emotional experience in psychotherapy interaction by combining insights from embodied cognition with notion intercorporeality along concept re-enactment. The focus is detailed interactional analysis way phenomenon we-ness (or we experience) appears session. We-ness concerns two more) people share an being aware attentive to they participate together experience. It argued that social interaction, needs be examined understood as profoundly temporal gradually evolves flow different levels intensity. built into enabled skillful coordination grounded expressive movements dependent on reciprocal patterns action. Furthermore, it suggested enactment we-experience may play particular prominent role psychotherapy. For therapist, communicative practices can work alternative resource enhance sensitive responsiveness interactive thereby create seen for patient more direct manner than if only verbalized.