Knorre, Zoe (2013) Humour in Therapy: A Discursive Psychology Perspective. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The current study investigated the use of humour in real-life psychology consultations from a discursive psychology and conversation analysis perspective. Four extracts from therapy consultations at a university psychology clinic were analysed. The consultations included one initial consultation and three subsequent consultations. Participants (N = 5) included two psychologists and three clients. To reveal how humour is done in therapy, the data were analysed for their situated nature, co-construction, and action orientation in the talk. It was found that humour was used in therapy. It was found that humour in therapy talk was used in an informal manner and therefore not therapeutic per se. Humour was sequentially positioned and introduced using puns and metaphors that drew from shared understandings between the participants. Intricacies of the complex interaction of humour were illustrated such as how participants oriented to humour, and how participants recovered from a failed attempt at humour.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology, Counselling and Community (1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2014) |
| Supervisors: | Andrea Lamont-Mills |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2025 01:54 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2025 01:54 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52473 |
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