Narrative and Psychotherapy`A densely packed book with interesting and valuable research gleaned from a wide variety of therapy approaches, Narrative and Psychotherapy furnishes the reader with a cogent historical appraisal of the way psychotherapy, culture and storytelling fit together.... A good reference book for counsellors and students.... The authors' students, and clients, must be very happy that he has the interest and the capacity to tune in to others in such a fresh manner' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling The core of psychotherapy can be seen as a process in which the client comes to tell, and then re-author, an individual life-story or personal narrative. The author of thi |
Contents
The Nature and Function of Storytelling | 28 |
Psychodynamic Approaches | 54 |
Constructivist Narrative Therapies | 69 |
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action activity Alasdair MacIntyre American Psychological Association approach to therapy argues aspects behaviour Bruner Carl Rogers chapter client and therapist client's story cognitive coherence concept construction counselling and psychotherapy counsellors deconstructing degradation ceremony described developed discourse emotional everyday example experience feelings Freud Gergen Greenberg happened healing Holocaust human ideas individual Jerome Bruner Kenneth Gergen life-story listening lives MacIntyre McAdams meaning Meichenbaum metanarrative metaphor modern moral myth narration narrative in therapy narrative perspective narrative therapy Ndembu notion Pennebaker postmodern practice problem propositional knowledge psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychology psychotherapy recounted reflection relationship Rennie role Sarbin scientific sense shame social constructionism social constructionist society Spence stories told story-line storytelling structure studies survivors techniques teller telling a story themes theory therapeutic therapist and client therapy session traditional Tubby Tubby's understanding Western Apache White and Epston writing