Fifty years of the Interactional View

Mark McKergow, Janet Bavelas

Abstract

Janet Bavelas is an active Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Canada. She was co-author of Pragmatics of Human Communication (1967) with Paul Watzlawick and Don Jackson and has conducted experimen- tal research on face-to-face dialogue and communication for half a century, authoring dozens of papers, chapters, and two further books. Janet was at the Mental Research Institute around the time of the birth of Brief Therapy and is now again producing groundbreaking research in this area with SFT colleagues, doing microanalysis of therapeutic conversations. She was an invited speaker at the SFCT research conference Orienting Solutions 2013, at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

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