Publications

Publication details [#39314]

Arminen, Ilkka. 2004. On the Weakness of Institutional Rules - The Case of Addiction Group Therapy. Discourse & Society 15 (5) : 683–704.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

doctor-patient conversation | group therapy | rule | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how new patients in an addiction therapy clinic are instructed about the rules for group therapy, and discusses the distinction between ‘modifiable rules’ and ‘non-negotiable rules’.