Description:
This book looks at the power of qualitative and creative-relational methods in psychotherapy research to challenge and expand upon evidence-based, medical, empirical and quantitative research discourses.
Review Quotes:
"I cherish this book as a powerful and much needed tool of decolonisation. The contributors offer insightful chapters that can help us push back against the tokenism, methodolatry, and perspective-less abstractions of mainstream qualitative research. I felt inspired as I read on and connected with the promise of soulful research that sees the intrapsychic alongside the interpersonal, sociocultural, and political. I can't wait to share this book with my students (undergraduate and doctorate alike) who are thirsty for scholarship that honours depth and brings psychotherapy practice closer to their research endeavours" -- Dr Miltiades Hadjiosif, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, University of the West of England, USA
"Bringing together an impressive field of international authors, this book invites readers into the nexus between qualitative research and psychotherapy practice. It is an 'essential text' for the resource list of any psychological therapy training programme. It introduces us to the lexicon of research theory and practice. The book traverses a wide range of methodologies, and this is revealed through both content and styles of writing. Expertise comes from northern and southern hemispheres, and from indigenous, feminist, queer, and critical voices. This is a highly creative, informative, and clinically thought-provoking text." -- Paula Collens, PhD, Senior Lecturer Auckland University of Technology, Course Leader, Research for Psychotherapy, New Zealand
"This book is carefully constructed to introduce and discuss qualitative approaches in psychotherapy. Contributors invite readers into their individual approaches through a participative reading, the single chapters thus becoming a construction in their own right which can be seen both as a 'finished' work or as a 'symphonic' work made up of many movements." -- Dione Mifsud, Department of Counselling, University of Malta, Malta