{"title":"Anticipation and Delivery of a Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Psychiatry","authors":"Liisa Voutilainen, A. Peräkylä","doi":"10.1080/08351813.2023.2170635","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A personality disorder (PD) diagnosis can be considered by a patient to be stigmatizing. This presents interactional challenges for the clinician who makes the diagnosis and communicates it to the patient.Through an analysis of video-recorded clinical interviews of PD patients, we explore the anticipation and delivery of the diagnosis in psychiatry. The method of the study is conversation analysis (CA). The diagnostic evaluation process of each patient extends over a number of clinical interviews. At the beginning of the process, the clinicians speak about the personality disorder diagnosis in an anticipatory manner. At the end of the process, they eventually communicate it to the patients. This analysis focuses on the interactional practices used by psychiatrists to help a patient “save face” when mentioning the (prospective) diagnosis. We demonstrate that both the avoidance and corrective practices of face work occur in the data. Even with these prartices, the delivery of the diagnosis to the patent can lead to conflict. We conclude that, in extended diagnostic evaluation processes, the preparatory work by the clinician is important to secure patient participation.The data for this analysis are in Finnish.","PeriodicalId":51484,"journal":{"name":"Research on Language and Social Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research on Language and Social Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2023.2170635","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT A personality disorder (PD) diagnosis can be considered by a patient to be stigmatizing. This presents interactional challenges for the clinician who makes the diagnosis and communicates it to the patient.Through an analysis of video-recorded clinical interviews of PD patients, we explore the anticipation and delivery of the diagnosis in psychiatry. The method of the study is conversation analysis (CA). The diagnostic evaluation process of each patient extends over a number of clinical interviews. At the beginning of the process, the clinicians speak about the personality disorder diagnosis in an anticipatory manner. At the end of the process, they eventually communicate it to the patients. This analysis focuses on the interactional practices used by psychiatrists to help a patient “save face” when mentioning the (prospective) diagnosis. We demonstrate that both the avoidance and corrective practices of face work occur in the data. Even with these prartices, the delivery of the diagnosis to the patent can lead to conflict. We conclude that, in extended diagnostic evaluation processes, the preparatory work by the clinician is important to secure patient participation.The data for this analysis are in Finnish.
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The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction. Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers. Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays, and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.