Abstract
This Research Dossier contains each of the 3 research papers submitted over the course of my doctoral practitioner training programme (PsychD) in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology. This research dossier is comprised of: in Year 1, a literature review, entitled ‘Mindfulness: a panacea for counselling psychologists? A Review of the Literature’; in Year 2, a research project entitled ‘How do UK female psychologists experience working at relational depth in the context of their mindfulness practices? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.’; and, in Year 3, a further research project entitled ‘The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Political Dialogue and Technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis’. The methodologies for both research projects followed qualitative designs. My research orientation has been founded on relativist ontological and constructionist epistemological principles.