Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy Discursive Qualitative Metho
In this powerful volume, six qualitative methods are used to analyze a couple therapy with a troubled young couple, illustrating the intricate processes and sub-processes of therapy through client interactions with their therapists and with each other. In
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Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy Discursive Qualitative Methods
Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy
Maria Borcsa • Peter Rober Editors
Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy Discursive Qualitative Methods
Editors Maria Borcsa Institute of Social Medicine Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthcare Research University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen Nordhausen, Germany
Peter Rober Institute for Family & Sexuality Studies University of Leuven Leuven, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-319-23305-5 ISBN 978-3-319-23306-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23306-2
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Foreword: An Invitation to Enter a Qualitative Research Dialogue
Two young people from different European countries meet, fall in love, and decide to live together. After a while, tensions develop in their relationship. They visit a therapist who specializes in helping couples. Their therapy sessions are recorded on video. Sometime afterwards, with their permission, what was said in each session was transcribed and analyzed by researchers interested in understanding more about how this kind of therapy works. That is what this book is about. How can we begin to make sense of what these researchers have done? I suggest that there are perhaps at least four perspectives that are relevant: personal, esthetic, scientific, and practical. From a personal perspective, anyone reading these chapters already has their own way of making sense of love, living together, cultural difference, and therapy. In the light of this personal knowledge, the central question that can be asked about the analyses offered in this book is: “how does this take forward, extend, or deepen my appreciation of these aspects of
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