title: Internalized Other Interviewing in Relational Therapy: Three Discursive Approaches to Understanding its Use and Outcomes.
abstract: For over 20 years, family therapist Karl Tomm has been engaging families and couples with a therapeutic intervention he calls Internalized Other Interviewing (IOI). The IOI (cf. Emmerson-Whyte, 2010; Hurley, 2006) entails interviewing clients, from the personal experiences of partners and family members as an internalized other. The IOI is based on the idea that through dialogues over time, one can internalize a sense of one's conversational partner responsiveness in reliably anticipated ways. Anyone who has thought in a conversation with a family member or partner, "Oh there s/he goes again," or anticipates next words before they leave the other's mouth, has a sense of what we are calling an internalized other. For Tomm, the internalized anticipations partners and family members may have offers entry points into new dialogues with therapeutic potential-particularly, when their actual dialogues get stuck in dispreferred patterns.
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Tanya E
authors: TE
authors: Mudry
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Tom
authors: T
authors: Strong
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Inés
authors: I
authors: Sametband
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Marnie
authors: M
authors: Rogers-de Jong
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Joaquín
authors: J
authors: Gaete
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Samantha
authors: S
authors: Merritt
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Emily M
authors: EM
authors: Doyle
authors: University of Calgary.
authors: Karen H
authors: KH
authors: Ross
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D033262:Narration; D036301:Qualitative Research; D056345:Theory of Mind