Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy

by Ivan Leudar, Sanna Vehvilainen, Charles Antaki

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521179823
• ISBN13: 9780521179829
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"