Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy - A Guide for Therapists

Informationen zum Autor Elaine Chaika is the author of Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Therapists, published by Wiley. Klappentext This book discusses current theories in linguistics and sociolinguistics as they relate to therapeutic situations, including uses of metaphor, slogans, and proverbs. It shows how people's empathies or feeling of alienation are displayed by the language they choose to describe or discuss events. Dysfunctions as different as depression, drug and alcohol additions, agoraphobia, schizophrenia and bulimia are examined in terms of the language used by clients or patients. It is shown that the way people encode life events influences their self-evaluations, evaluations of others, and their general behaviour, so that therapy becomes a process of learning to retell one's life story. Every chapter contains either actual narratives from clients or therapist/client interviews with thorough linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of these speech activities. The therapist is shown how to listen and what to listen for in the client's speech, as well as what kinds of questions to ask. Zusammenfassung Intended for speech and language therapists! psychiatrists! psychotherapists and other mental health workers! this text provides a practical guide to semantics! syntax and discourse analysis specifically for those working with psychotic patients. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Linguistics. Pragmatics. Doing Therapy. Proverbs, Metaphors, Idioms and Therapy. Schizophrenia and Therapy. Telling a Life. Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Chaika, E Chaika, E. Chaika, Elaine Chaika, Elaine (Providence College Chaika
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1999
• EAN: 9781861560254
• ISBN: 978-1-86156-025-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Exc Business and Economy (Whur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works