Tseliou2020

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Tseliou2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Tseliou2020
Author(s) Eleftheria Tseliou
Title Discourse Analysis and Systemic Family Therapy Research: The Methodological Contribution of Discursive Psychology
Editor(s) Matthias Ochs, Maria Borcsa, Jochen Schweitzer
Tag(s) EMCA, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy process research, Systemic family therapy, Discursive psychology, Rhetorical analysis, Intersubjective approach, Ideological dilemmas, Methodology
Publisher Springer
Year 2020
Language English
City Cham
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Pages 125–141
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-36560-8_8
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Book title Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling
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Abstract

In this chapter I aim to discuss specific ways in which the theoretical and methodological approach of discursive psychology could contribute to systemic family therapy research. Despite its resonance with systemic family therapy, up-to-date systemic family therapy research has minimally explored its methodological potential for the study of therapeutic dialogue. In this chapter, following a brief overview of discursive psychology, I will discuss three specific theoretical and methodological proposals which indicate its potential, due to their affinity with systemic, family therapy tenets. These include a rhetorical, argumentative perspective to the study of therapeutic conversations; an intersubjective, “systemic” perspective to psychological phenomena like identity; and a historically and politically informed perspective to the study of therapeutic discourse, as depicted in the notion of ideological dilemmas. While providing examples from family therapy studies, I will conclude with a critical appraisal of the methodological potential of discursive psychology for systemic family therapy research.

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