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Author White, Michael (Michael Kingsley)

Title Narrative means to therapeutic ends / Michael White, David Epston
Edition First edition
Published New York : Norton, [1990]
Norton, 1990
©1990

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Description xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series A Norton professional book
Norton professional book.
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
Letter writing Therapeutic use
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Use of Written communication
Notes "A Norton professional book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-221) and index
Subject Counseling.
Family psychotherapy.
Letter writing -- Therapeutic use.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Therapeutic use.
Narrative therapy.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy -- methods.
Writing.
Author Epston, David.
LC no. 89048776
ISBN 0393700984