Jane Turner's Impression Management Theory

Impression management skills are very apparent in Private Practice, a TV show in which doctors co-collaborate in a private practice called Ocean Wellness. Violet Turner is a psychiatrist who interacts with patients ranging from kids to criminals. On the occasion when her patient is a pedophile, she exercises impression management skills and attempts to eliminate any judgments in order to do her job. In the second scene, Dr. Turner interacts with a psychiatric patient introducing Goffman’s front region, back region, and sign vehicles. On the other hand, Naomi Bennet, the fertility specialist, encounters an obstacle in her career that tests her morals in regards to her duty. When one of the patients wants an abortion at her practice, she struggles to permit the medical care, moreover she becomes overly invested in this issue, which shifts her social interactions personally and professionally. Both of these doctors encounter severe cases in their careers that influences their emotional wellbeing. In order to maintain homeostasis in both professional identity and self - identity, physicians engage in dramaturgical communications with their patients.
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Assigned to take this case by a court mandate, Dr. Turner unenthusiastically sees a pedophile for daily therapy. Preparing for her imminent session in the back region, Violet informs her colleagues and claims, “Unbelievable, I should not have to do this. You guys like pedophiles? Cause you’re about to have one here every day” (ep.7). This statement defines her attitude toward her case, thus alluding to the judgement that she has for a pedophile and introducing her dramaturgical communication