Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and Experience

Contributing Authors.

Preface.

Part I: Engaging Qualitative Research and the Relational-centred Approach.

Introduction.

1. Qualitative Relational-centred Research: A ‘Voyage of Discovery’.

2. Competing Qualitative Research Traditions.

3. Embodied Co-creation: Theory and Values for Relational Research.

4. Challenging ‘Evidence-based Practice’.

5. Quality in Qualitative Relational-centred Research.

Part II: Relational-centred Research: Being and Doing.

Introduction.

6. Setting Up Research.

7. The Research Encounter: Co-creating your Data.

8. Embracing Relational Research: Learning from Therapy.

9. Engaging ‘Process’.

10. Analysis of Data (Linda Finlay and Anna Madill).

11. Relational Ethics.

12. Becoming a Relational Researcher.

Part III: Relational-centred Research in Action.

Introduction.

13. ‘My Heart was Killing Me’: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Anger (Virginia Eatough).

14. A Therapist’s Portrait of a Clinical Encounter with a Somatizer (Maria Luca).

15. Relating through Difference: A Critical Narrative Analysis (Darren Langdridge).

16. A Journey into Survival and Coping by Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Susan L. Morrow).

References.

Index.