Professor Michael Guilfoyle

MA (Clinical Psychology), PhD

Professor Michael Guilfoyle

Email: m.guilfoyle@ru.ac.za
Phone: +27-46-6038500

Registered with HPCSA as Clinical Psychologist

Teaching Areas

• Narrative therapy

• Psychopathology

• Community Psychology

• Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

Research Interests

• Understanding the therapeutic relationship

• Discursive, narrative and constructionist approaches to therapy

• The politics of clinical psychology and therapeutic practice

• Discourse theory and post-structuralism

• Power and dialogue, and implications for identity, social interaction and therapy

Publications

Guilfoyle, M. (in press). Client subversions of the DSM. Feminism & Psychology.

Guilfoyle, M. (in press). Towards a grounding of the agentive subject in narrative therapy. Theory & Psychology.

Guilfoyle, M. (2011). The ethical subject in poststructural therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 30 (4), 1-15.

Guilfoyle, M. (2009). Althusser’s notion of interpellation as a tool for studying the politics of therapeutic practice. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 7 (3), 159-173.

Guilfoyle, M. (2009). Theorising relational possibilities in narrative therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 28 (2), 19-33.

Guilfoyle, M. (2009). Therapeutic discourse and eating disorders in the context of power. In H. Malson & M. Burns (Eds.). Critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders: An International reader (pp. 196-206). Psychology Press.

Guilfoyle, M. (2008). CBT’s integration into societal networks of power. In R. House & Loewenthal, D. (Ed.). Against and for CBT (pp. 233-240). London: PCCS Books.

Guilfoyle, M. (2008). CBT’s integration into societal networks of power. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 10 (3), 197-205.)

Guilfoyle, M. (2007). Grounding a critical psychoanalysis in frameworks of power. Theory & Psychology, 17 (4), 563-585.

Guilfoyle, M. (2007). Power and the psychotherapeutic relationship. In A. Columbus. Advances in Psychology Research. Vol. 48 (pp. 39-66). New York. Nova Publishing.

Goncalves, M. & Guilfoyle, M. (2006). Dialogism and psychotherapy: Therapists’ and clients’ beliefs supporting monologism. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 19 (3), 251-271.

Guilfoyle, M. (2006). Using power to question the dialogical self and its therapeutic application. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 19 (1), 89-104.

Guilfoyle, M. (2005). From therapeutic power to resistance? Therapy and cultural hegemony. Theory & Psychology, 15 (1), 101-124.

Guilfoyle, M. (2003). Dialogue and power: A critical analysis of power in dialogical therapy. Family Process, 42 (3), 331-343.

Guilfoyle, M. (2002). Power, knowledge and resistance in therapy: exploring links between discourse and materiality. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 7 (1), 83-98.

Guilfoyle, M. (2002). Rhetorical processes in therapy: the bias for self-containment. Journal of Family Therapy, 24 (3), 298-316.

Guilfoyle, M. (2001). Problematizing psychotherapy: the discursive production of a bulimic. Culture & Psychology, 7 (2), 151-180.

Barry, T. & Guilfoyle, M. (1998). Second-order cybernetics as a model for supervision. In L. Schlebusch (Ed.) South Africa beyond transition: Psychological well-being (pp. 7-10). Pretoria: Psychological Society of South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. (1998). Useful questions in group psychotherapy. In L. Schlebusch (Ed.). South Africa beyond transition: Psychological well-being (pp. 135-136). Pretoria: Psychological Society of South Africa.

Pillay, A.L., van der Veen, M.B.W. & Guilfoyle, M. (1998). Nonattendance at a general hospital psychological clinic in South Africa. Psychological Reports, 83 (2), 695-701.

Guilfoyle, M. & Barry, T. (1995). The utility of trance states in the therapist. First Africa congress in clinical hypnosis and psychosomatic medicine (paper 22). Sun City: South African Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Conference Papers

Culhane, M., Guilfoyle, M. & Bates, U. (2009). Constructing the role of practicing psychologists in palliative care. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference, November 2009. Wexford, Ireland.

Kinsella, L., Dalton, P. & Guilfoyle, M. (2009). Living with dying: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the experiences of palliative care ontology patients in a general hospital setting. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference, November 2009. Wexford, Ireland.

Guilfoyle, M. (2008). “The interpellation of subjects in therapeutic practice”. Paper presented at the World Ideology and Discourse Analysis (IDA) Conference. September 2008. Roskilde, Denmark.

Guilfoyle, M. (2008). “Theorising the relationship in narrative therapy”. Paper presented at The Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self. August 2008. Cambridge, UK.

McCabe, S. & Guilfoyle, M. (2008). “Constructing the young heroin user: A discourse analysis of accounts of treatment experiences”. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference, November 2008. Carlow, Ireland.

Prendergast, S. & Guilfoyle, M. (2008). “The views of older Irish adults on seeking help for dementia”. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference, November, 2008. Carlow, Ireland.

Guilfoyle, M. (2005). Symposium convenor: “Critical directions in clinical psychology”. Paper presentation: “Critique and clinical psychology”. Presented at PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference. November, 2005. Derry, Northern Ireland.

Guilfoyle, M. (2005). “Therapy’s struggle against the world: Can we build an effective therapy of resistance?” Paper presented at International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) Conference, June 2005. Cape Town, South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. (2004). “Power and dialogue in therapeutic practice”. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on the Dialogical Self. August 2004. Warsaw, Poland.

Guilfoyle, M. (2003). “Examining power in therapy”. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference, November 2003. Bunratty, Co Clare, Ireland.

Guilfoyle, M. (2001). “Resistance in therapy: The perspective of power”. Paper presented at the PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland) Conference. November 2001. Cork, Ireland.

Guilfoyle, M. (1999). “Psychotherapeutic discourse: Transformation and prejudice”. Paper presented at the International (Africa Division) IUPsyA/ Psyssa Conference. July 1999. Durban, South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. (1998). “Socially constructing the bulimic”, Paper presented at the Psychological Society of South Africa Conference. Cape Town, South Africa.

Barry, T. & Guilfoyle, M. (1997). “Second-order cybernetics as a model for supervision”. Paper presented at the Psychological Society of South Africa Conference, Durban, South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. (1997). “Useful questions in group psychotherapy”. Paper presented at the Psychological Society of South Africa Conference, Durban, South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. (1996). “A systemic approach to group therapy”. Paper presented at the Psychological Society of South Africa Conference. Johannesburg, South Africa.

Guilfoyle, M. & Barry, T. (1996) “Systemic-strategic therapy with adolescents”. Workshop presented at South African Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Allied Professions Conference. Durban, South Africa

Guilfoyle, M. & Barry, T. (1995). “The utility of trance states in the therapist”. Paper presented at the First Africa Congress in Clinical Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine. Sun City: South Africa.