title: A tape recorder as a therapeutic "witness" in the treatment of an 8-year-old girl.
abstract: A tape-recorded session of an early moment in an 8-year-old girl's psychotherapy experience is presented. The use of the recording device is immediately taken up by the child as a means of creating a "witness" for her depiction of both intensely distorted experiences of her therapist and poignant portrayals of her life as miserable and despairing. A discussion of both the process and the content generated from the use of the tape recorder is described, with implications drawn as to its effectiveness in the therapeutic process.
authors.affiliation: City University of New York at City College, NY, USA. steve.tuber@gmail.com
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tuber
authors.forename: Banu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Seckin
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013637:Tape Recording