Qualitative Approaches for Psychotherapy – serie

Creative~Relational Inquiries in the Wild accompanies researchers and writers drawn to the possibilities of what ‘creative~relational inquiry’ might offer. Departing from the well-trodden paths of traditional, procedural qualitative methodology, each chapter explores how creative~relational inquiry invites an engagement that is intricate, intimate, and emergent. The volume meets the intrepid inquirer/reader by providing lively exemplars from those who are ‘doing’ creative~relational inquiries in and for their research. Each author approaches creative~relational inquiry differently: there is no one way to do a creative~relational inquiry and there is no one to say who is or is not doing it ‘correctly’. The book will enable readers to find their own ways of plugging the creative~relational into their research projects.

Creative~Relational Inquiries in the Wild accompanies researchers and writers drawn to the possibilities of what ‘creative~relational inquiry’ might offer. Departing from the well-trodden paths of traditional, procedural qualitative methodology, each chapter explores how creative~relational inquiry invites an engagement that is intricate, intimate, and emergent. The volume meets the intrepid inquirer/reader by providing lively exemplars from those who are ‘doing’ creative~relational inquiries in and for their research. Each author approaches creative~relational inquiry differently: there is no one way to do a creative~relational inquiry and there is no one to say who is or is not doing it ‘correctly’. The book will enable readers to find their own ways of plugging the creative~relational into their research projects.

Heuristic Research in Psychotherapy showcases the power of heuristic enquiry to deepen through discovery, critique, create, and reimagine psychotherapy research.Building on the interdisciplinary foundation of previous volumes in the Qualitative Research Approaches in Psychotherapy and Allied Disciplines series, this book focuses specifically on heuristic methodology—a form of research grounded in personal experience, reflexivity, and embodied insight. Across 11 chapters, contributors explore phenomena including aesthetics, colonisation, cultural hybridity, motherhood, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and spiritual transformation. Each chapter exemplifies how lived experience and rigorous methodology intersect, offering readers a richly textured and intellectually provocative resource. Edited by Keith Tudor, the volume brings together psychotherapists, researchers, and practitioners across diverse cultural and theoretical contexts. This book challenges medicalised, positivist research models, foregrounding relational, critical, and situated approaches to therapeutic enquiry.It will be essential reading for postgraduate students, practitioner-researchers, and psychotherapy educators seeking alternatives to conventional methods.