Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists

Linda Finlay teaches Psychology with the Open University, UK, and is an Academic Consultant offering training and mentorship on qualitative research in health care. She is currently working towards registration as an Integrative psychotherapist. She has published widely on topics relating to psychosocial occupational therapy, group work and qualitative research. Ken Evans is a registered Gestalt and Integrative psychotherapist. He is co-director of the European Institute for Psychotherapeutic Studies, an institute that provides a range of continued professional development workshops for graduate therapists as well as training programmes in clinical supervision, psychotherapy research, and organisational consultancy.

"This is a useful and informative introductory book. It sparked my interest in pursuing some of the suggested methods and topics of research within my own setting." (Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, June 2010)

• About the Editors viiContributing Authors ixPreface xiPart I Engaging Qualitative Research and the Relational-centred Approach 1Introduction 11 Qualitative Relational-centred Research: A 'Voyage of Discovery' 32 Competing Qualitative Research Traditions 133 Embodied Co-creation: Theory and Values for Relational Research 294 Challenging 'Evidence-based Practice' 455 Quality in Qualitative Relational-centred Research 59Part II Relational-centred Research: Being and Doing 69Introduction 696 Setting Up Research 717 The Research Encounter: Co-creating your Data 878 Embracing Relational Research: Learning from Therapy 1079 Engaging 'Process' 12710 Analysis of Data Linda Finlay Anna Madill 14511 Relational Ethics 15912 Becoming a Relational Researcher 175Part III Relational-centred Research in Action 183Introduction 18313 'My Heart was Killing Me': A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Anger Virginia Eatough 18514 A Therapist's Portrait of a Clinical Encounter with a Somatizer Maria Luca 19715 Relating through Difference: A Critical Narrative Analysis Darren Langdridge 21316 A Journey into Survival and Coping by Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Susan L Morrow 227References 241Index 259