Full Description
So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written in the series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do narrative therapy at a narrative therapy agency. Each letter highlights the most useful discoveries during the authors' years of practicing in a narrative therapy agency, both as a therapist and as supervisors. Each letter also contains transcripts from therapy sessions showing the principles and practices in action and ends with a therapeutic poem that was given to the client based on their own words from a therapy session. While written for narrative therapists at any level of experience, this book is especially useful for graduate-level theory courses in therapy training programs in counseling, psychology, social work, and family therapy.
Contents
Letter 1. What's So Narrative About Narrative Therapy?: A Letter About Stories and Story-Work
Letter 2. What's Riding Us?: A Letter About the Master's Narratives
Letter 3. What's Problematic About Calling It a Problem?: A Letter About Dilemmas
Letter 4. When Externalizing Internalizes: A Letter About Narrative Diagnoses
Letter 5. Why Are You in Therapy?: A Letter About Up Against Stories
Letter 6. Whose Story Is It?: A Letter About the Agentive Turn
Letter 7. What Do You Want to Do, Love?: A Letter About Counterstories
Letter 8. What if We Aren't Angels?: A Letter About Interesting Protagonists
Letter 9. What is Beautiful and What is Ugly?: A Letter About Moral Reading Prompts
Letter 10. What Now?: A Letter About Writing as an Antidote to Despair
Epilogue: Dear Student
