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Therapy as Discourse

Practice and Research

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Editors:
  1. Olga Smoliak

    1. University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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  2. Tom Strong

    1. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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  • Brings together discursive researchers and discursive therapists
  • Offers insights into psychological discourse in terms of subjectivity, reflexivity, institutional discourses, gender and ethics
  • Analyses how therapy can be practised and understood as a discursive activity

Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction to Discursive Research and Discursive Therapies

    • Tom Strong, Olga Smoliak
    Pages 1-18

  3. Discourse in Psychotherapy: Using Words to Create Therapeutic Practice

    • Jarl Wahlström
    Pages 19-44

  4. Researching the Discursive Construction of Subjectivity in Psychotherapy

    • Evrinomy Avdi, Eugenie Georgaca
    Pages 45-69

  5. The Alliance as a Discursive Achievement: A Conversation Analytical Perspective

    • Adam O. Horvath, Peter Muntigl
    Pages 71-93

  6. Discursive Therapies as Institutional Discourse

    • Gale Miller
    Pages 95-116

  7. Reflexive Questions as Constructive Interventions: A Discursive Perspective

    • Joaquín Gaete, Olga Smoliak, Shari Couture
    Pages 117-140

  8. Transforming Gender Discourse in Couple Therapy: Researching Intersections of Societal Discourse, Emotion, and Interaction

    • Carmen Knudson-Martin, Jessica ChenFeng, Aimee Galick, Elsie Lobo, Sarah K. Samman, Kirstee Williams
    Pages 141-162

  9. Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Psychotherapy Research: Overview and Methodological Potential

    • Eleftheria Tseliou
    Pages 163-186

  10. Discursive Ethics in Therapeutic Encounters

    • Olga Smoliak, Tom Strong, Robert Elliott
    Pages 187-217

  11. Discursive Research from an Assimilation Model Perspective

    • William B. Stiles
    Pages 219-229

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 231-237
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About this book

This book addresses the premise that therapy can be understood, practiced, and researched as a discursive activity. Using varied forms of discourse analysis, it examines the cultural, institutional, and face-to-face communications that shape, and occur within, therapies that are discursively understood and practiced. By first providing an overview of commonalities across discursive therapies and research approaches, the authors discursively examine general aspects of therapy. Topics explored include subjectivity, psychological terms, institutional influences, therapeutic relationships, therapists’ ways of talking and questioning, discursive ethics, and assessment of therapeutic processes and outcomes. This book offers a macro-analysis of the conversational practices of a discursively informed approach to therapy; as well as a micro-analysis of the ways in which language shapes and is used in a discursively informed approach to therapy. This book will interest practitioners seeking to better understand therapy as a discursive process, and discourse analysts wanting to understand therapy as discursive therapists might practice it.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Olga Smoliak

  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Tom Strong

About the editors



Olga Smoliak is an Associate Professor in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Guelph, Canada. She uses conversation analysis and discursive psychology to investigate how psychological matters are constituted discursively. Olga has studied interactional methods used in therapy to give advice, collaborate, accomplish therapeutic tasks, and negotiate responsibility for blameworthy conduct. 


Tom Strong is a Professor, couple and family therapist, and counsellor-educator at the University of Calgary, Canada. Tom researches and writes on the collaborative, critically-informed and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy.


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