Commentary on Robin Wooffitt’s Paper “Poetic Confluence: A Sociological Analysis of an Enigmatic Moment”

Anssi Peräkylä, Ph.D., is Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1992. He was Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Helsinki in 1995-1998, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tampere in 1998-2003, Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki from 2003. In 2019-2023, he will be the holder of the prestigious position of Academy Professor. His books include AIDS Counselling (Cambridge University Press 2005), Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (co-edited, Cambridge University Press 2008) and Emotion in Interaction (co-edited, Oxford University Press 2013). Currently, he is involved in research on interactional manifestations of narcissism and personality disorders. Alongside his academic work, Peräkylä also has private practice as psychoanalyst.
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