DEMONSTRATION: Dialogical narrative transformation in constructivist psychotherapy:
a process research using a computer-assisted method for qualitative analysis
Meritxell Pacheco, Luis Botella, Sergi Corbella
Dept. of Psychology, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (Spain)
Abstract
Psychotherapy can be considered as a process of social influence through
language, a form of human relationship in which client's self-narrative
transformation is fostered. This paper will present a process research
concerning the nature of narrative reconstruction that takes place during
the psychotherapeutic dialogue. A computer-assisted method for the qualitative
analy-sis of narrative texts through a set of categories relevant to the
study of the psychotherapeutic process will be discussed. Our aim is to
describe changes in the client's self narratives during the psychotherapeutic
process and how the therapist interventions contribute to the dialogical
reconstruction of these self-narratives. Consequently, we will discuss
the usefulness of the narrative as a unit of analysis in order to understand
the psychotherapeutic process. A single case study will be presented in
order to demonstrate how we implement our method for the qualitative analysis
of self-narratives as well as to describe changes in the client's self
narra-tives during the psychotherapeutic process.
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