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 persons lived experience, inviting a reflexive posture and encouraging a sense of authorship and reauthorship of ones experiences and relationships in the telling and retelling of ones story.
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Weight: 289g
Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
Publication Date: 14 May 2024
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781324053644
About David EpstonMichael White
David Epston M.A. C.Q.S.W. is coauthor of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends (1990) and Playful Approaches to Serious Problems (1997). He is a visiting professor at the School of Community Studies UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland and is the codirector of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland. Michael White (19482008) one of the founders of narrative therapy and co-director of the Dulwich Centre an institute for narrative practice and community work in Adelaide Australia made significant contributions to psychotherapy and family therapy. He is the author of Maps of Narrative Practice and co-author of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends.