Discourse analysis of a theme in one successful case of brief psychodynamic - interpersonal psychotherapy - Madill, Anna.;Barkham, Michael. 4 0 16; 5
ABSTRACT : The article introduces discourse analysis as a fruitful approach to psychotherapy change-process research. Extracts are presented from a successfully resolved, client-specified, problematic theme that was selected from a successful 8-session psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy of a female client presenting with a major depressive episode. The study offers a heuristic demonstrating (a) how resolution of the client's problem evolved from implications raised by the client's own description of her predicament and involved the therapist's legitimation of a morally defensible account of the client's actions and (b) how cultural meanings can be brought into the consulting room as intimately personal problems. The implications of studying therapeutic change as a discursive activity comprising the use and negotiation of sociocultural meanings are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: 2 -- 0; 6; Psychotherapy.;Discourse analysis. -- 20; 20; 2