Moses, Lauren B. (2019) Managing Epistemic and Deontic Status Through Doubling in Psychodrama. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Doubling is a technique unique to psychodrama used to elicit a client’s problems (Dayton, 2005). The therapist and client collaborate to formulate the problem in dramatic therapy talk. Doubling involves a therapist playing the role of a client by voicing their inner reality. The actual client contributes talk that elaborates on these voiced expressions. These utterances are offered to a group member playing the role of a significant other (Dayton, 2005). This case study explores how the client and therapist manage differences in epistemics and deontics while jointly voicing the client’s concerns. It will use Conversation Analysis (CA) to focus on the sequence organisation of talk and actions. The study focuses on discourse produced during a psycho-dramatic scenario drawn from a video of exemplary practice by therapist, Tian Dayton. One therapist-initiated and one other-initiated doubling episode was examined. Doubling was interactionally accomplished through sequences that elicited endorsement of rights and elaboration. Subsequently, background issues were introduced into the psycho-dramatic scenario. The ‘rights to know’ and the ‘rights to determine action’ are jointly managed. Practically, the findings shape training practices by showing how the role-play participants manage differences in knowledge and power.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Steven Christensen |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2025 23:24 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2025 23:24 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | psychodrama; doubling; conversation analysis; epistemic; deontic |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52598 |
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