Psychotherapy is inherently discursive, yet, only recently, has the role that discourse plays in therapy been recognized as a focus in itself for analysis and intervention. Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents a overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their philosophical underpinnings.

• 1: Andy Lock and Tom Strong: Discursive therapy: Why language, and how we use it in therapeutic dialogues, matters


• 2: Lois Shawver: Talking to listen: its pre-history, invention and future in the field of psychotherapy


• 3: Rom Harré and Mirjana Dedai?: Positioning Theory, narratology and pronoun analysis as discursive therapies


• 4: Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen: Therapeutic Communication from a Constructionist Standpoint


• 5: John Shotter: Ontological social constructionism in the context of a social ecology: The importance of our living bodies


• 6: Susanna Chamberlain: Narrative Therapy: Challenges and communities of practice


• 7: Sue Levin and Saliha Bava: Collaborative therapy: Performing reflective and dialogic relationships


• 8: Maureen Duffy: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Listening in the present with an ear toward the future


• 9: Gale Miller and Mark McKergow: From Wittgenstein, complexity, and narrative emergence: Discourse and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy


• 10: Lois Holzman and Fred Newman: Activity and performance (and their discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method


• 11: Charles Waldegrave: Developing a 'Just Therapy': Context and the Ascription of Meaning


• 12: Maria Maniapoto: Mãori expressions of healing in Just Therapy


• 13: Ronald J. Chenail, Melissa DeVincentis, Harriet E. Kiviat, and Cynthia Somers: Systematic narrative review of discursive therapies research: Considering the value of circumstantial evidence


• 14: Robbie Busch: Problematising social context in evidence-based therapy evaluation practice/governance


• 15: Maureen Duffy: The body, trauma, and narrative approaches to healing


• 16: John Cromby: Narrative, discourse, psychotherapy - neuroscience?


• 17: Tom Strong: Conversation and its therapeutic possibilities