Discursive Research in Practice: New Approaches to Psychology and Interaction

by Edited by Alexa Hepburn , Sally Wiggins

• ISBN13: 9780521849296
• ISBN10: 0521849292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Over the past few decades new ways of conceiving the relation between people, practices and institutions have been developed, enabling an understanding of human conduct in complex situations that is distinctive from traditional psychological and sociological conceptions. This distinctiveness is derived from a sophisticated analytic approach to social action which combines conversation analysis with the fresh treatment of epistemology, mind, cognition and personality developed in discursive psychology. This volume is the first to showcase and promote this new method of discursive research in practice. Featuring contributions from a range of international academics, both pioneers in the field and exciting new researchers, this book illustrates an approach to social science issues that cuts across the traditional disciplinary divisions to provide a rich participant-based understanding of action.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Discursive research: themes and debates	p. 1
Psychology in action	p. 29
Managing subjectivity in talk	p. 31
Emotions in meeting talk	p. 50
Negotiating consciousness: parapsychology and the social organisation of reports of mental states	p. 70
Apologising-in-action: on saying 'sorry' to Indigenous Australians	p. 88
Mind, mousse and moderation	p. 104
Professionals and clients	p. 125
When patients present serious health conditions as unlikely: managing potentially conflicting issues and constraints	p. 127
Arguing and thinking errors: cognitive distortion as a members' category in sex offender group therapy talk	p. 147
Members' and analysts' interests: 'formulations' in psychotherapy	p. 166
'Suppose it wasn't possible for you to go any further with treatment, what would you do?' Hypothetical questions in interactions between psychiatrists and transsexual patients	p. 182
Youth and institutions	p. 201
'Doing reluctance': managing delivery of assessments in peer evaluation	p. 203
A valid person: non-competence as a conversational outcome	p. 224
Discursive practices in talking problems during a school-family meeting	p. 247
Food abuse: mealtimes, helplines and 'troubled' eating	p. 263
Discursive research: applications and implications	p. 281
Transcription notation	p. 292
References	p. 294
Index	p. 318
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