The abstract of a new ROLSi.net blog on analysing the client centred psychotherapy of Carl Rogers, by Yuanyuan Zhang of Loughborough University

A new guest blog: analysing the structure of Carl Rogers's Client-Centered Therapy.

Rogers was one of the most influential psychotherapists of the late 20th century. Unusually, he left a legacy of therapy sessions recorded on film, a few of which are available on YouTube.

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Ugh. Commiserations to those unlucky enough to go - and indeed in some sense those fated to stay...

Hope it goes ok for you today. You have a multitude wishing you well.

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Cambridge University Press royalties flooding in

Open Conversation: Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures This Open Conversation explores how power relations are shaped not just by politics and economics, but by the everyday ways we address and interact with each other — across languages, cultures, and in...

On 22 May, we're hosting a @circleu.bsky.social Open Conversation on "Navigating power in international interactions: a view across languages and cultures".
You can join us online.
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This looks like a performance by Catalan castellers.

But stripped of its local contingency, passion, risk, humanity and shared achievement.

So maybe appropriate?

The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis offers a detailed overview of how everyday interaction shapes social life—from classrooms and hospitals to courtrooms, homes, and online settings. This ...

Our book chapter "Identity and Membership Categorization Analysis" in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis is now freely available.... 📖🪪

@tillyflint.bsky.social #EMCA #identity #discourse

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A lot of developmental psychology isn't worth doing A complaint about my field

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Marvellous. Explains why Alepa staff always seemed so love-smitten

JULIO IGLESIAS - Amapola - Medley /Válogatás / YouTube video by Péterné Koncz Ilona

Aumapula - could it be... could it possibly be! a reference to that hymn of schmaltz, Amapola, by (who else?) the sainted Julio Iglesias?

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Announcing the ROLSI award for Outstanding Research by an Early-Career Researcher. The journal Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI) is pleased to announce an award for early-career researchers, to be competed for by those presenting a paper at the ICCA conference in Edmonton, Canada, June 2026. The prize will be awarded on the basis of a single-authored written research paper representing a single-authored presentation accepted for the conference. It is open to those who have been awarded their doctorate no earlier than five years from June 28, 2026. Deadline: May 30th, 2026. Enquiries: rolsi.journal@gmail.com

Announcing the inaugural ROLSI Award for Outstanding Early-Career Research

Were you awarded your PhD since June 2021?
Presenting at ICCA in Edmonton?

Go in for the award!

For more information, contact the Editors. : rolsi.journal@gmail.com

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Image of a headline form the Guardian: "Trump says military action helping people of Iran because "they want to hear the bombs because they want to be free""

Ah yes. Much as I used to want, as a schoolboy, to hear the swish of the cane because I wanted to be free.

Note to historians - this was quite a long time ago.
Also - I only got caned once.

Commiserations to you all who have to live with it (tho' the rest of us are increasingly having to as well)

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Adjacency pair of the day

(with thanks to @davidallengreen.bsky.social for the first pair part)

Should a 10 be risking themselves in that way? Suggests that they have little faith in the defence behind them.

Headline from local paper: "shoplifter targeted blocks of cheese at West Bridgford store"

Yes, targeted, why not. Fairly easy to hit.

Melanie Oesch - The Queen Of Yodeling YouTube video by Ketan Samant

Unmistakeable vibes of Melanie Oesch, the Yodelling Queen, in her local

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L2 grammar-body interface: Project description Project description The grammar-body interface in second language interaction: a developmental perspective This project examines how bodily actions and grammar interact in L2 French and Swedish. Usi...

Very interesting new Swiss/Swedish project now offering PhD and postdoc positions

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They do make a revealing pair, to Thoreau's (enormously) greater credit, and as posterity has certified. Skinner is even less taught in (UK) psychology departments than Freud, which is saying something.

I came across Walden Two as an undergraduate psychology student, so it was lost on me that BF Skinner (for it was he) was rewriting Thoreau. It puzzled me then, but I would recommend it now to anyone who wants to see what a purblind behaviourist ideologue thinks would be a happy world.

Hear hear. Thanks @alcs.co.uk

I suppose you could say that it's recompense for the sweat of writing the stuff originally, but it doesn't feel like it.Getting the odd dollop of cash now again is a lovely treat.

Here's a coincidence: just this morning I discovered that a reviewer, sent the original and the revision, managed to mix them up and reviewed the original again without noticing. Now * that* is a good reason not to send the review out....

Hmm! Very odd practice, if it's not just a one-off because of some peculiarity of the other review(s). It's just conceivable that there was something odd, objectionable or just downright crazy about the other reviews and the editor thought it best to keep it quiet.

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Aye. And yet each of us knows good people, some who may well have been academic colleagues, crossing the divide into management and trying to stay humane. Sadly, in troubled administrations, the culture sucks them in.

Lord, it was bad when I retired (from a different place) but it sounds dire now - hardly recognisable as a university. Commiserations.

Friday, May 22, Loughborough University: a workshop on how people's talk is coded and reduced into categories for various institutional reasons. For more information, contact e.richardson@lboro.ac.uk

This should be good: an intensive workshop on how what people say gets heard officially, and set into pre-existing categories.

What in the patient's talk is coded as illness-relevant?
How does the emergency call-taker get to press the "dispatch" button?

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