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Publication details [#26972]

Antaki, Charles and Mark Rapley. 1996. 'Quality of life' talk: the liberal paradox of psychological testing. Discourse & Society 7 (3) : 293–316.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | doctor-patient conversation | interview | psychology

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper which examines how psychologists attempt to solve the paradox in their 'quality of life'-discourse in diagnostic interviews concludes that the outcome rather refers to the particpants' joint construction of a paradoxical meeting.