Katie MacMillan

Dr Katie MacMillan Research Associate Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University Loughborough, LE11 3ST United Kingdom Brockington Building U.01.03 fon +44 (0)1509 223730 fax +44 (0)1509 223944 K.Macmillan@lboro.ac.uk

Research Interests

My long term research interests are in knowledge construction, therapy and the application of Discourse Analysis (DA), and Reflexivity, to talk and texts. My doctoral thesis, "Trance-Scripts: the Poetics of a Reflexive Guide to Hypnosis and Trance Talk" (hyperlink forthcoming), for example, is a reflexive, discursive analysis of the poetics of hypnosis.  As well as examining the ways in which hypnotic phenomena are defined and constituted within various research paradigms, 'Trance-Scripts' explores connections between poetry, hypnosis, therapy, and reflexivity, and argues a case for reflexivity as textual therapy.

I am also interested in the False Memory/ Recovered Memory controversy, and, in collaboration with colleagues at Loughborough University, am currently examining the search for the 'real' (in science, therapy, and identity) in discourses about Multiple Personality/ Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD/DID).