Chloe Shaw, GIPPEC fellow presented at her research, a conversation analytic study of CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) therapy sessions, on a panel, Talking about Death, at the International Pragmatics Association Conference in Belfast. Using the method of conversation analysis, the research identifies subtle ways in which therapists invite a patient to consider an alternative perspective concerning particularly delicate matters, whilst managing the dilemma of invalidating the patient’s perspective.
