An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society
Communication & Medicine provides a leading forum in critical debates of the “black box” of what is routinely characterised as “the communicative turn” in healthcare practice in clinical and public health domains.
Based on a corpus of 70 tape-recorded therapy sessions (client-centered therapy, psychodynamic therapy), this paper presents analyses of therapists’ interventions that have the potential to trigger change processes. Using a conversation analytic approach, ...
Abstract As a longitudinal process, psychotherapy is geared to facilitate a positive change in the patients. Starting from the classical psychoanalytical tradition, a fundamental aim in many types of psychotherapy is to increase the clients’ contact with ...
A fundamental theoretical premise in Structural Family Therapy (SFT) is that changes in individual members and improvements in intra-familial relations are realized by repairing the family structure. Dysfunctional families are conceptualized in terms of ...
