Developing Psychotherapeutic Innovation and Imagination through Phenomenology and Qualitative Research

This book presents contemporary studies in qualitative psychotherapeutic research, examining their effectiveness in developing psychotherapeutic innovation and imagination. There is a focus on phenomenology, particularly given the growing prominence of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The book explores the tension between different forms of therapeutic knowledge—theoretical explicit knowledge, practice-derived explicit knowledge, and the crucial yet elusive tacit knowledge that em