#3847. The use of ‘my side telling’ during history taking in psychiatric consultations

June 2026publication date
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Language and Linguistics;
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Anthropology;
Communication;
Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
The research examines an interactional practice through which psychiatric practitioners exhibit knowledge about their patients’ problems, symptoms, or experiences in psychiatric outpatient consultations. In the data, the psychiatrists employ ‘my side telling’ within larger sequences of talk where psychiatrists solicit their patients to elaborate on their problems or experiences, treating prior answers of the patients as unsatisfactory. Based on empirical study of the data, it is argued that ‘my side telling’ acquires a confrontative function and may be employed as a tool to test the patients’ sense of reality and willingness to talk about their experiences. “My side telling” allows the psychiatrists to achieve a balance between respecting the patients’ rights to report their own experiences and influencing the directions in which the information is reported.
Keywords:
conversation analysis; history taking; my side telling; psychiatric consultation

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