Quotes About Interactional

From a contemporary interpersonal point of view, there is no emotionally neutral position. The analyst will get caught up in the patient's dynamics no matter how hard he tries not to. The very idea that he might be free of the interactional mix itself is a problem, because it blinds the analyst to his own involvement and requires the patient to collude in that denial. Thus

Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning "relational"). He went so far as to say, "It's the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office." We can't teach patients to be relational if we aren't relational with them.

the concept of scaffolding to investigate teacher questions as 'mediational tools within the dialogue between the teacher and students' (p. 184). As we saw in Chapter 1 and Chapter 4, scaffolding refers to a process in which, for example, a more knowledgeable (or expert) speaker helps a less knowledgeable (or novice) learner by providing an interactional framework that the learner can build on.