Description
Therapy Talk aims to help those who apply ‘the talking cure’ become better at their jobs by enabling them to understand how their verbal responses may channel the conversation partner into a particular direction, promoting conversation analysis as a useful tool to study and enhance the therapeutic alliance between client and practitioner. Pamela Fitzgerald 1. Introduction 2. Interaction Issues in Short-Term Psychotherapy 3. Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy 4. A Note on Methodology 5. On Active Listening in Short-Term Psychotherapy 6. On the Use of Formulations in Short-Term Psychotherapy 7. Sequencing in Short-Term Psychotherapy 8. Employee Assistance Programmes – A Management Tool 9. Conclusions and Implications




