Background: Aphasia and other acquired language impairments have the potential to impact
greatly on quality of life by disrupting everyday conversation. Different intervention …

The book is an empirical study of naturally occurring talk between psychotherapist and
clients experiencing various anxieties and traumas that most of us recognize and can relate …

This article uses the medium of clinicians' comments and stories to explore their perceptions
of therapeutic relationships and how these relationships come to a close at discharge from …

This chapter provides an overview of qualitative, language-based approaches to studying
emotion in psychotherapeutic interaction. Particular attention is given to conversation …

Shared decision-making about therapeutic methods has been proposed as a way of
conceptualising, and assisting, collaboration in the therapeutic alliance. However, little is …

In this chapter, we examine three different sources of discursive information according to
how they characterise the nature of language disorders:(1) literature in the professional field …

What clients actually say in psychotherapy sessions has long been considered to be the
point of departure for most psychotherapy interventions. 1 Watzlawick, Weakland and Fisch …

N arrative therapy has been helpful to me in my work as a child psychiatrist with children,
youth, and families. I have been trained in psychopharmacology, psychiatric diagnosis of the …

Postmodern approaches to therapy have been greatly informed by developments in social
constructionist theory. Paralleling these innovations have been similarly informed …

This commentary joins a conversation between Ryle and Leiman, which represents a larger
conversation among theories of psychotherapy, semiotics and linguistics. The emerging …