Attachment matters: its role, development, maintenance, and disruption are major themes in
the social and biological sciences. Rooted in the work of Darwin and Freud, attachment …

This paper provides an analysis of a basic assumption grounding the clinical research: the
ontological autonomy of psychotherapy—based on the idea that the clinical exchange is …

Veränderung gilt als raison dêtre helfender Berufe in Beratung, Psychotherapie, Coaching,
Medizin oder Physiotherapie. Die helfenden Interaktionen in den genannten Berufen und …

This research examined how nonagency—a client's sense of lost mastery in one's life—was
discursively constructed in the first psychotherapy session. The data consisted of the …

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 …

We examine the embodiment of client-centered core conditions of unconditional positive
regard, congruence, and empathy in therapeutic discourse. We do this by arguing that the …

In this paper, we apply dialogical concepts to understand the development of self-reflexivity
and self-compassion during psychotherapy. Specifically, we present a study that mapped …

Although couples therapy is rightly seen as one modality of the psychotherapies, many
salient aspects of the process are not revealed by psychological theory. These have to do …

This study examined how nine clients discursively constructed non-agency in their first
session of individual psychotherapy. With open reading and linguistic analysis of the …

This multiple case study investigated how clients construct nonagentic positions when
formulating their problems in the beginning of their first psychotherapy session. The initial …