Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends

White, Michael/ Epston, David

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UPC:
9780393700985
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
5/17/1990
Release Date:
5/17/1990
Author:
Michael White;David Epston
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Use of letter-writing in family therapy.

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.