posted on 2014-06-20, 11:18authored byAnssi Perakyla, Charles Antaki, Sanna Vehvilainen, Ivan Leudar
Psychotherapy is a 'talking cure'- clients voice their troubles to therapists, who listen, prompt, question, interpret and generally try to engage in a positive and rehabilitating conversation with their clients. Using the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis - a radical approach to how language in interaction works - this book sheds light on the subtle and minutely organised sequences of speech in psychotherapeutic sessions. It examines how therapists deliver questions, cope with resistance, reinterpret experiences and how they can use conversation to achieve success. Conversation is a key component of people's everyday and professional lives and this book provides an unusually detailed insight into the complexity and power of talk in institutional settings. Featuring contributions from a collection of internationally renowned authors, Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy will appeal to researchers and graduate students studying conversation analysis across the disciplines of psychology, sociology and linguistics.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
PERAKLYLA, A. ... et al (eds), 2008. Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Version
NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)
Publication date
2008
Notes
This item is closed access. Charles Antaki was one of the editors of this book and also wrote three of the chapters in the book.