Abstract Non-expert stance or “not-knowing” position plays important role in postmodern/ poststructuralist therapies (Tarragona, 2008) and at the same time many misunderstandings potential pitfalls for therapeutic practice arose with this concept. This paper examines “knowledge” conversations from perspective of one postmodern – Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. After an introduction to Therapy i...

Despite a well-established tradition within the information systems discipline and wider management investigations, researchers are frequently required to remind if not educate reviewers as to how qualitative research should be evaluated. This paper reviews and discusses criteria that have been proposed for grounded theory, ethnographic, confessional, postmodern, and interpretive and positivist...

This paper describes the relationship between depression and the difficulties experienced in the postmodern world for human beings who must reconcile their consciousness of their own death and the feelings of powerlessness in the face of inevitable consequences. Depression and suicide are closely linked, and the consequences in terms of philosophy and psychology are described.

In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn—despite its benefits—is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernis...