Compassionate Voices of Clients and Therapists in Systemic Group Psychotherapy: A Narrative Study

In this paper, we apply narrative and dialogical concepts in the study of compassion, understanding compassion as a voice emerging from psychotherapy. We analyzed two two-hour group systemic psychotherapy sessions using narrative thematic analysis. Firstly, we identified clients’ inner voices in their narrative and, secondly, we tracked clients’ and therapists’ voices in the feedback and interventions given to group members. These voices were...