Therapy as Discourse

Therapy as Discourse

by Olga Smoliak and Tom Strong
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/09/2018

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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.

ISBN:
9783319930671
9783319930671
Category:
Psychotherapy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing

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