TY - T1 - Empathy, Challenge, and Psychophysiological Activation in Therapist-Client Interaction SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/234559 T3 - A1 - Voutilainen, Liisa; Henttonen, Pentti; Kahri, Mikko; Ravaja, Niklas; Sams, Mikko; Perakyla, Anssi A2 - PB - Y1 - 2018 LA - eng AB - Two central dimensions in psychotherapeutic work are a therapist's empathy with clients and challenging their judgments. We investigated how they influence psychophysiological responses in the participants. Data were from psychodynamic therapy sessions, 24 sessions from 5 dyads, from which 694 therapist's interventions were coded. Heart rate and electrodermal activity (EDA) of the participants were used to index emotional arousal. Facial muscle activity (electromyography) was used to index posit... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - empathy; challenge; psychotherapy; psychophysiology; social interaction; autonomic nervous system activation; AUTONOMIC PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PATIENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; COUPLE; CARE; 515 Psychology; 5144 Social psychology N1 - PP - ER -