Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book addresses the premise that therapy can be understood, practiced, and researched as a discursive activity. Using varied forms of discourse analysis, the authors examine cultural, institutional, and face-to-face communications that shape, and occur within, therapy that is discursively understood and practiced. Following an overview of commonalities across discursive therapies and research approaches, general aspects of therapy are examined discursively: subjectivity, psychological terms, institutional influences, therapeutic relationships, therapists' ways of talking and questioning, discursive ethics, and assessing therapeutic processes and outcomes. The conversational practices of a discursively informed approach to therapy are also macro-analyzed and micro-analyzed for how language shapes and is used in a discursively informed approach to therapy.
Synopsis
Chapter 1. Introduction to discursive research and discursive therapies; Tom Strong & Olga Smoliak.- Chapter 2. Discourse in psychotherapy: Using words to create therapeutic practice; Jarl Wahlstr m.- Chapter 3. Researching the discursive construction of subjectivity in psychotherapy; Evrinomy Avdi & Eugenie Georgaca.- Chapter 4. The alliance as a discursive achievement: A conversation analytical perspective; Adam Horvath & Peter Muntigl.- Chapter 5. Discursive therapies as institutional discourse; Gale Miller.- Chapter 6. Reflexive questions as constructive interventions: A discursive perspective; Joaquin Gaete Silva, Olga Smoliak, & Shari Couture.- Chapter 7. Transforming gender discourse in couple therapy: Researching intersections of societal discourse, emotion, and interaction; Carmen Knudson-Martin, Jessica ChenFeng, Aimee Galick, Elsie Lobo, Sarah K. Samman, & Kirstee Williams.- Chapter 8. Conversation analysis, discourse analysis and psychotherapy research: Overview and methodological potential; Eleftheria Tseliou.- Chapter 9. Discourse ethics in therapeutic encounters; Olga Smoliak, Tom Strong, & Robert Elliott.- Chapter 10. Discursive research from an assimilation model perspective; William Stiles.