Narrative means to therapeutic ends
Michael White (Author), David Epston (Author)
This book presents a respectful, often playful approach to serious problems, with groundbreaking theory as a backdrop. The authors start with the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience. Therapy then becomes a process of storying or re-storying the lives and experiences of these people
xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780393700985, 0393700984
20828023
Foreword / Karl Tomm
Introduction
Story, knowledge, and power
Analogy
The text analogy
The text analogy and therapy
Dominant narrative as dominant knowledge and unit of power
Alternative stories and culturally available discourses
Oral and written traditions: a distinction
Conclusion
Externalizing of the problem
Relative influence of questioning
Defining the problem to be externalized
Unique outcomes
The revision of persons relationships with problems
Responsibility
The cultural context
Some final thoughts
A stories therapy
Distinction between logico-scientific and narrative modes
Letters of invitation
Redundancy letters
Letters of prediction
Counter-referral letters
Letters of reference
Letters for special occasions
Brief letters
Letters as narrative
Self stories
Counter documents
Certificates
Declarations
Self-certification
Conclusion
"A Norton professional book."