Therapy as Discourse: Practice and Research (The Language of Mental Health)
Psychology
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Summary
This book addresses the premise that therapy can be understood practiced and researched as a discursive activity Using varied forms of discourse analysis it examines the cultural institutional and face-to-face communications that shape … and occur within therapies that are discursively understood and practiced By first providing an overview of commonalities across discursive therapies and research approaches the authors discursively examine general aspects of therapy Topics explored include subjectivity psychological terms institutional influences therapeutic relationships therapists ways of talking and questioning discursive ethics and assessment of therapeutic processes and outcomes This book offers a macro-analysis of the conversational practices of a discursively informed approach to therapy as well as a micro-analysis of the ways in which language shapes and is used in a discursively informed approach to therapy This book will interest practitioners seeking to better understand therapy as a discursive process and discourse analysts wanting to understand therapy as discursive therapists might practice it