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A Speech Interaction System

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Language in Psychotherapy

Part of the book series: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy ((EPPS))

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In collaboration initially with G. Saslow, R. Matarazzo, and J. Phillips and more recently with A. Wiens and others, we have been concerned since 1955 with the analysis of interview material, focusing on the formal or interactional components of communication. We assume that “the very essence of diagnostic interview and psychotherapy material—interview content—is carried by durations of communicative action (utterances) and silence. Nevertheless, only in the very recent past have investigators seemed to concern themselves with the form (and other normative characteristics) of the distributions of these two basic and highly stable interview variables” (Matarazzo, Wiens, Matarazzo, & Saslow, 1968, p. 353).

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  1. Department of Medical Psychology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, 97201, USA

    Joseph D. Matarazzo & Arthur N. Wiens

  2. Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA

    Donald J. Kiesler

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Matarazzo, J.D., Kiesler, D.J., Wiens, A.N. (1987). A Speech Interaction System. In: Russell, R.L. (eds) Language in Psychotherapy. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0496-6_6

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