QMiP Bulletin

Benefits of a dual focus methodology utilising IPA and FDA in understanding meaning-making around the experience of psychosis

QMiP Bulletin 2023 Katy Baboulene, Carla Willig

A dual focus methodology combining Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) was utilised to explore both language and the subjective embodied experience of psychosis. Despite arguments that combining IPA and FDA creates epistemological/ontological conflicts due to the dissonant theoretical underpinnings, adoption of a critical realist position...