Full Description
Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography takes a new pedagogical approach to teaching and learning in contemporary narrative therapy, based in autoethnography and storytelling.
The individual client stories aim to paint each therapeutic meeting in such detail that the reader will come to feel as though they actually know the two or more people in the room. This approach moves beyond the standard narrative practice of teaching by transcripts and steps into teaching narrative therapy through autoethnography. The intention of these 'teaching tales' is to offer the reader an opportunity to enter into the very 'heart and soul' of narrative therapy practice, much like reading a novel has you enter into the lives of the characters that inhabit it. This work has been used by the authors in MA and PhD level classrooms, workshops, week-long intensive courses, and conferences around the world, where it has received commendations from both newcomer and veteran narrative therapists.
The aim of this book is to introduce narrative therapy and the value of integrating autoethnographic methods to students and new clinicians. It can also serve as a useful tool for advanced teachers of narrative practices. In addition, it will appeal to established clinicians who are curious about narrative therapy (who may be looking to add it to their practice), as well as students and scholars of autoethnography and qualitative inquiry and methods.
Contents
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICE STORIES 1. Introduction: Writing Practice Stories -- A History of a Pedagogy; SECTION II: STORIES IN ACTION 2. Wilbur the Worrier Becomes Wilbur the Warrior 3. Mother Appreciation Parties 4. A New Surprise of Existing: "The Last Thing I Ever Was - Was Silent": A Poetic Response to Patriarchal Malice 5. Blossoming in the Storm 6. Batman Returns: Love and Ethics in Narrative Couples Therapy 7. "Maybe We Are Okay": Contemporary Narrative Therapy in the Time of Trump; SECTION III: A TEACHING STORY 8. Inspirited Contemporary Narrative Therapy: A Two-Day Workshop 9. Conclusion: A Literary Means to Pedagogical Ends
