Benefits of a dual focus methodology utilising IPA and FDA in understanding meaning-making around the experience of psychosis
Katy Baboulene, Carla Willig
QMiP Bulletin 2023 DOI: 10.53841/bpsqmip.2023.1.35.36 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Qualitative study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Embodied cognition Perspective graphical Dual grammatical number Focus optics Epistemology Meaning existential Psychosis Sketch Interpretative phenomenological analysis Psychotherapist Qualitative research Social science Linguistics |
| Key findings | Adopting a critical realist position permits integration of IPA and FDA, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of psychosis from both discursive and subjective embodied perspectives. |
Abstract
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 permitted an integration of these approaches. A combined methodological approach enabled a more comprehensive understanding of the experience of psychosis, from both a discursive and subjective embodied perspective. Adoption of this binocular approach resulted in recommendations for research methodology and clinical/counselling psychology practice.
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