Researching the Psychotherapy Process

NICK RIDING is Director, Psychotherapy Programmes, at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He also practises as a psychotherapist within the National Heatlh Service. GEORGIA LEPPER is Lecturer in Psychotherapy at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. She is the author of Categories in Talk and Text: A Practical Introduction to Categorization Analysis.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART 1: BACKGROUND TO THE FIELD OF PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH.- Introduction: What is Research?.- Psychotherapy Research: A Brief Overview.- The Research Process.- PART 2: THE CODING APPROACHES.- Introduction.- Transference-Related Methods.- The Assimilation Model.- Interpersonal Theory Approaches.- PART 3: THE DISCOURSE APPROACHES.- Introduction.- Grounded Theory.- Conversation Analysis.- Analyzing Narratives in Psychotherapy Texts.- The Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM).- PART 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND DOCUMENTATION.- Introduction.- Computerized Data Analysis.- Documentation of the Research.- Conclusion.- References.