Discourse analysis and psychotherapy: A critical review

E Avdi, E Georgaca - European Journal of Psychotherapy and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to render the research literature on discourse analysis of psychotherapy
more accessible to researchers and clinicians, and to provide a concise presentation and …

A critical methodological review of discourse and conversation analysis studies of family therapy

E Tseliou - Family Process, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Discourse (DA) and conversation (CA) analysis, two qualitative research methods, have
been recently suggested as potentially promising for the study of family therapy due to …

Negotiating a pathological identity in the clinical dialogue: Discourse analysis of a family therapy

E Avdi - Psychology and psychotherapy: Theory, research and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Within the framework of social constructionism, psychotherapy has been re‐conceptualized
as a semiotic process, which consists of the creative generation of new meanings in the …

Evaluating the talking cure: The contribution of narrative, discourse, and conversation analysis to psychotherapy assessment

E Georgaca, E Avdi - Qualitative research in Psychology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article draws upon an extensive review of narrative, discourse, and conversation
analyses of psychotherapy in order to outline, critically discuss, and evaluate claims made …

From therapeutic power to resistance? Therapy and cultural hegemony

M Guilfoyle - Theory & Psychology, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Four ideas are used to conceptually link local therapeutic practices with macro sociocultural
arrangements, and to question the feasibility of therapeutically derived resistances against …

How is the therapeutic relationship talked into being?

S Roy‐Chowdhury - Journal of Family Therapy, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A review of the place of the therapeutic relationship within systemic approaches to therapy is
provided. This serves to contextualize the findings of a research study that subjects therapy …

Narrative and discursive approaches to the analysis of subjectivity in psychotherapy

E Avdi, E Georgaca - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews research that utilises language‐based analyses (narrative analysis,
discourse analysis and conversation analysis) to examine aspects of subjectivity in the …

Empowerment or holding the child responsible? An Australian recovery-oriented mental health policy analysis

K Reid, J Alford - The British Journal of Social Work, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recovery, as a concept is internationally recognised as a means to empower children to
manage their own mental health. Recovery-oriented mental health policy production and …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the contribution of subject positioning to studying therapy as a dialogical enterprise

E Avdi - International Journal for Dialogical Science, 2012 - researchgate.net
Recent social constructionist and dialogical approaches to psychotherapy have pointed to
the usefulness of attending to language, meaning and dialogue in conceptualising client …

Subject positioning: Gaps and stability in the therapeutic encounter

M Guilfoyle - Journal of constructivist psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of subject positions holds that people make sense of who they are by locating
themselves within culturally circulating discourses and narratives. Researchers have noted …