Technical and ethical aspects of tape-recordings in psychotherapy
Abstract
Tape-recording is used in psychotherapeutic research and practice since about 60 years, but still many psychotherapists and psychoanalysts are very sceptic about this technique. Based on fundamental reflections about the meaning of tapes as the “third in alliance” the article demonstrates and discusses technical implications of audio-recordings and transcripts by using impressive clinical examples. Important ethical aspects of the different contexts of meaning are discussed: 1. regarding the dyadic relationship between patient and psychotherapist; 2. in psychotherapeutic training, especially in supervision and 3. in psychotherapeutic research and theory.We conclude, that audio-recordings and anonymous transcripts enable us in a particular way to analyse and to investigate implicit axioms and referential frames of mind of the patient and of the psychotherapist.
Keywords:
Tape-recording - transcripts, psychotherapeutic technique - ethics, psychotherapy -psychoanalysis: teaching and training, research, practice.
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2000-04-01
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Allert, G., Dahlbender, R. W., Thomä, H., & Kächele, H. (2000). Technical and ethical aspects of tape-recordings in psychotherapy. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 8(2), 65–72. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/526
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