title: Positioning and the discursive construction of categories.
abstract: Psychological phenomena are semiotic, so the best model for understanding them must be 'conversation'. Psychiatric conversations are dominated by complaints. In dealing with them the structure of the consequential conversation must be subjected to 'positioning analysis' to reveal the dynamics of rights and duties among the speakers.
authors.affiliation: Georgetown University, Department of Psychology, Washington, DC, USA. harre@herald.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rom
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harré
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends; D011584:Psychology / Q000639:trends