Why We Should Watch What We Say: Position Calls, Everyday Speech and the Production of Relational Subjectivity

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-324

  Drewery, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

agency; narrative therapy; positioning theory; psychological practices; relational subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144453493     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354305053217     Document Type: Article

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