Overview
- Brings together discursive researchers and discursive therapists
- Offers insights into psychological discourse in terms of subjectivity, reflexivity, institutional discourses, gender and ethics
- Analyses how therapy can be practised and understood as a discursive activity
Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Olga Smoliak is an Associate Professor in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Guelph, Canada. She uses conversation analysis and discursive psychology to investigate how psychological matters are constituted discursively. Olga has studied interactional methods used in therapy to give advice, collaborate, accomplish therapeutic tasks, and negotiate responsibility for blameworthy conduct.
Tom Strong is a Professor, couple and family therapist, and counsellor-educator at the University of Calgary, Canada. Tom researches and writes on the collaborative, critically-informed and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Therapy as Discourse
Book Subtitle: Practice and Research
Editors: Olga Smoliak, Tom Strong
Series Title: The Language of Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93067-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93066-4Published: 29 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06578-2Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93067-1Published: 14 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4374
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4382
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 237
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Psychotherapy, Personality and Social Psychology