Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy

Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is also Co-Lead of the AUT Group for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is the editor of Claude Steiner, Emotional Activist (2020), and the author of Conscience and Critic (2017), both published by Routledge. Jonathan Wyatt is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and a Co-Director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His book, Therapy, Stand-up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry, published by Routledge, won the 2020 ICQI Book Award.

1. Into the Thick of It: Troubling Case Studies and Researching Close to Therapeutic Practice 2. Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Exploring and Making Meaning of Lived Experience in Psychotherapy Research 3. Using Performative Meta-Reflexivity in Psychotherapy Research 4. A Psychosocial Coming into Play: Researching Authenticity in Therapy, The Academy, and Friendship 5. Feminist Research in Psychotherapy: The Strange Case of The United Kingdom’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Policy 6. Critical Race Theory: A Methodology for Research in Psychotherapy 7. Pasifika Research Methodologies and Psychotherapy 8. Queering Psychotherapy Research: Collaborative Autoethnography and Fossicking 9. Critical Heuristics in Psychotherapy Research: From ‘I Who Feels’ to ‘We Who Care—and Act’ 10. Keeping It Real: Grounded Theory for a Profession on the Brink 11. Researching from the Inside: Using Autoethnography to Produce Ethical Research from Within Psychotherapy Practice 12. (Re)searching Poetically: Poetic Inquiry in Psychotherapy 13. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: Phototherapy, Collaborative Writing, and Psychotherapy Research 14. From Post-Qualitative Inquiry Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry in (And Beyond) the Education/Training of Therapists 15. Re-Searching Research: Reflections on Contributions to Qualitative and Post-Qualitative Research