The explicitation interview as a tool for understanding the emergence of a clinical hypothesis

Explicitation interviewing (EI) is not a common technique. It is necessary to abandon our usual ways of conducting a qualitative interview in order to guide the interviewee in his or her own experience. After having explained the essence of this technique, we will propose an interactive session with a video capsule in order to grasp the finesse of this tool and the expertise contained in the follow-ups and in the guidance used. Finally, we will analyse together the data collected during this interview which aimed to understand the emergence of a clinical hypothesis in a therapist. This technique has a double interest: that of improving our knowledge of the cognitive processes at play during the emergence and use of a hypothesis; and that of learning to adopt an inner posture of stepping back and analysing one's own functioning in order to encourage metacognitive questioning.