Preface <br>Introduction: The Social Construction of Normality and Pathology; Michelle O'Reilly and Jessica Nina Lester <br>PART I: RECONCEPTUALISING MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS <br>1. The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis; Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'Reilly <br>2. Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis to Study Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health; Nikki Kiyimba <br>3. The Research Interview in Adult Mental Health: Problems and Possibilities for Discourse Studies; Julie Hepworth and Chris McVittie <br>4. Inclusive Conversation Analysis with Disabled People; Val Williams, Marcus Jepson, Lisa Ponting and Kerrie Ford <br>5. The Discursive Construction of Drug Realities: Discourses on Drugs, Users and Drug Related Practices; Benno Herzog <br>6. The Construction of Adult ADHD: Anna's Story; Mary Horton-Salway and Alison Davies <br>7. Using Discourse Analysis to Investigate How Bipolar Disorder is Constructed as an Object; Lynere Wilson and Marie Crowe <br>8. Discourses of Autism on Film: An Analysis of Memorable Images that Create Definition, Andrea Garner, Valerie Harwood and Sandra C. Jones <br>9. Abuse Victimes and High Profile Offenders: A Discourse Analysis of Victim Construction and Adult Mental Health; Naima Fowlis, Michelle O'Reilly and Mary Farrelly <br>PART II: NAMING, LABELLING AND DIAGNOSING <br>10. Diagnosis as an Interactional Achievement in Psychiatric Interviews; Carles Roca-Cuberes <br>11. Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: How Doctors Use Medical Labels When They Communicate and Explain the Diagnosis; Chiara M. Monzoni and Markus Reuber <br>12. The Process of Social Labelling of Mental Illness: An Analysis of Family Conversations; Milena Lisboa and Mary Jane Spink <br>13. Making Mental Disorders Visible: Proto-morality as Diagnostic Resource in Psychiatric Exploration <br>14. The Role of Self-Disclosure in the Social Construction of Understandings of Alcoholism and Mental Health within Talk between Members of Alcoholics Anonymous; Matthew Thatcher <br>15. "But How Often Does This Happen?" Problem Reducing Responses by Coaches in E-mail Counselling; Joyce Lamerichs and Wyke Stommel <br>16. Does Ana=Anorexia? Online Interaction and the Construction of New Discursive Objects; David Giles <br>PART III: THE DISCURSIVE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY <br>17. Exploring the Heterogeneity of "Schizophrenic Speech"; Lisa Mikesell and Elizabeth Bromley <br>18. Mental Health Treatment Planning: A Dis/empowering Process; Michael Mancini <br>19. Team Work in Action: Building Grounds for Psychiatric Medication Decisions in Assertive Community Treatment; Beth Angell and Galina Bolden <br>20. 'Good' Communication in Schizophrenia: A Conversation Analytic Definition; Laura Thompson and Rose McCabe <br>21. 'Talk About Trouble': Practitioner Discourses on Service Users Who Are Judged to be Resisting, Contesting or Evading Treatment; Michael Hazelton and Rachel Rossiter <br>22. Using Talk to Rehabilitate: Analysing Therapeutic Conversation between a Learning Disabled Offender with ASD and a Forensic Speech and Language Therapist; Sushie Jayne Dobbinson <br>23. A Critical Discursive Perspective on Psychiatric Hospitals; Claire Bone and Nichola Marchant <br>PART IV: THERAPY AND INTERVENTIONS <br>24. Discursive Awareness and Resourcefulness: Bringing Discursive Researchers into Closer Dialogue with Discursive Therapists?; Tom Strong <br>25. Therapeutic Practice as Social Construction; Kenneth Gergen and Ottar Ness <br>26. The Value of Using Discourse and Conversation Analysis as Evidence to Inform Practice in Counselling and Therapeutic Interactions; Nikki Kiyimba and Michelle O'Reilly <br>27. Interactional Practices of Psychotherapy; Liisa Voutilainen and Anssi Peräkylä <br>28. Finding the Middle Ground between Therapist-centred and Client-centred Metaphor Research in Psychotherapy; Dennis Tay <br>29. Storytelling, Depressing and Psychotherapy; Peter Muntigl <br>30. Using Discourse Analysis to Develop Understanding of Suicide Risk Assessment; Ric Bowl and Andrew Reeves <br>31. Communicative Practices in Staff Support of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities; Charles Antaki, Mick Finlay, Chris Walton and Joe Sempik <br>32. Discovering Mental Ill Health: 'Problem-solving' in an English Magistrates' Court; Timothy Auburn, Cordet Smart, Gisella Hanley Santos, Jill Annison, and Daniel Gilling <br>33. Discourses of Abuse and Recovery: Talking About Domestic Violence and its Implications for Therapy; Henderikus Stam, Michaela Zverina, Lorraine Radtke and Robbie Babins-Wagner <br>34. When Assistance is Not Given: Disaffiliative Responses to Therapeutic Community Clients' Implicit Requests; Marco Pino <br> <br>