Description |
xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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A Norton professional book |
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Norton professional book.
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Contents |
Foreword / by Karl Tomm -- Introduction -- 1. Story, knowledge and power -- 2. Externalizing the problem -- 3. A storied therapy -- 4. Counter documents |
Summary |
White and Epston base their therapy on 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 restorying the lives and experiences of these people. In this way narrative comes to play a central role in therapy. Both authors share delightful examples of a storied therapy that privileges a person's lived experience, inviting a reflexive posture and encouraging a sense of authorship and reauthorship of one's experiences and relationships in the telling and retelling of one's story |
Analysis |
Psychotherapy Use of Written communication |
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Letter writing Therapeutic use |
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Psychotherapy |
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Psychotherapy Use of Written communication |
Notes |
"A Norton professional book." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221) and index |
Subject |
Counseling.
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Family psychotherapy.
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Letter writing -- Therapeutic use.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Therapeutic use.
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Narrative therapy.
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Psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy -- methods.
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Writing.
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Author |
Epston, David.
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LC no. |
89048776 |
ISBN |
0393700984 |
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