"In defence of loose ends: Psychotherapy process research in the real w" by A. E. Sidis, T. D. Bøe et al.
Understanding what transpires in therapeutic conversations is as complex as the humans who are engaged in them. Inspired by the natural sciences, mainstream research in psychotherapy has taken up a positivist epistemology and strives for quantification and verification to produce evidence of the effectiveness of an approach. This paper explores an alternative foundation for therapeutic practices which has implications for how we do research. First, we present some ideas from process philosophy a...
Henri Bergson Dialogical Research Henry Bergson Process Philosophy Sychotherapy Process Research Systemic Functional Linguistics
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