Approaching the mind in clinical interviewing: the techniques of soundings and counterprojection.
When an interviewer and a patient meet, it is the meeting place of two minds. This article discusses the essential use of clinical imagination in the initial interview and presents two techniques, soundings and counterprojection that can enhance the interviewer's ability to create a shared psychologic space with the interviewee.
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Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. sgallant@challiance.org
D003243:Consciousness; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations