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A grounded theory of improvisation in therapy: Lessons from decoloniality (2023)
Journal Article
Blunden, N. (2023). A grounded theory of improvisation in therapy: Lessons from decoloniality. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 23(4), 882-892. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12634

Grounded theory (GT) is a popular research methodology that has been used in various fields and disciplines. Its researchers face the paradox of their method being grounded in both data and theory, potentially resulting in researcher ambivalence towa... Read More about A grounded theory of improvisation in therapy: Lessons from decoloniality.

A pluralistic perspective on research in psychotherapy: Harnessing passion, difference and dialogue to promote justice and relevance (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, K., McLeod, J., Blunden, N., Cooper, M., Gabriel, L., Kupfer, C., …Winter, L. A. (2021). A pluralistic perspective on research in psychotherapy: Harnessing passion, difference and dialogue to promote justice and relevance. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 742676. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742676

The adoption of a pluralistic perspective on research design, processes of data collection and analysis and dissemination of findings, has the potential to enable psychotherapy research to make a more effective contribution to building a just society... Read More about A pluralistic perspective on research in psychotherapy: Harnessing passion, difference and dialogue to promote justice and relevance.

‘And we are a human being’: Coproduced reflections on person-centred psychotherapy in plural and dissociative identity (2021)
Journal Article
Blunden, N., & Billie. (2021). ‘And we are a human being’: Coproduced reflections on person-centred psychotherapy in plural and dissociative identity. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 19(2), Article e1578. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1578

In this reflexive case-study, ‘Billie’, an integrative psychotherapist, and her therapist, Nicola, offer a coproduced account of Billie's lived experience of dissociative identity. Challenging the medicalised ‘fragmentation towards integration’ disco... Read More about ‘And we are a human being’: Coproduced reflections on person-centred psychotherapy in plural and dissociative identity.

Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Blunden, N., & Calder, G. (2020). Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions. European Journal of Personality, 8(1), 75-85

The personalization of care holds an ideological ambivalence that allows for diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations. To be person-centred may seem to be definitively unobjectionable: what is not to like about an approach that puts the u... Read More about Co-production and person-centred care in neoliberal conditions.