Therapy as Discourse: Practice and Research 1st Edition Olga Smoliak

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• ISBN 10: 3319930672
• ISBN 13: 9783319930671
• Author: Olga Smoliak

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction to Discursive Research and Discursive Therapies
2. Discourse in Psychotherapy: Using Words to Create Therapeutic Practice
3. Researching the Discursive Construction of Subjectivity in Psychotherapy
4. The Alliance as a Discursive Achievement: A Conversation Analytical Perspective
5. Discursive Therapies as Institutional Discourse
6. Reflexive Questions as Constructive Interventions: A Discursive Perspective
7. Transforming Gender Discourse in Couple Therapy: Researching Intersections of Societal Discourse, Emotion, and Interaction
8. Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Psychotherapy Research: Overview and Methodological Potential
9. Discursive Ethics in Therapeutic Encounters
10. Discursive Research from an Assimilation Model Perspective

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