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Narrative & Strategic Therapies

1. Maps of Narrative Practice

   Michael White

   Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, is back with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990.More

2. From Violence, Toward Love: One Therapist's Journey

   Marjorie Holiman

   This is the evocative story of one therapist's experiences with violence.
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3. Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families

   David Epston, Jennifer Freeman, Dean Lobovits

   The "grown-up talk" of therapy is likely to turn off children - especially if it focuses on their problematic behavior. The highly effective techniques of narrative therapy include children by respecting their unique language, stories, and views of the world.More

4. In the Therapist's Mirror: Reality in the Making

   Marilyn Wedge

   Wedge's central argument, presented clearly and illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience, even the experience of one's own self, is a construction of signs. Symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual, and drama create and shape our realities and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change.More

5. Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making Perspective

   Mary Baird Carlsen

6. Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities

   Gene Combs, Jill Freedman

   For psychotherapy students, teachers, and practitioners, this book describes the clinical application of the growing body of ideas and practices that has come to be known as narrative therapy. Clear and compelling demonstrations of narrative therapy practice, rich in case examples and creative strategies, are at the heart of this book.More

7. Doing Contextual Therapy: An Integrated Model for Working with Individuals, Couples, and Families

   Peter Goldenthal

   This book explains this deeply ethical approach of contextual therapy in practical terms and demonstrates its practice in extensive cases.More

8. Back to Reality: A Critique of Postmodern Theory in Psychotherapy

   Barbara S. Held

   The author critiques postmodern/narrative theory, with its underlying antirealist/constructivist philosophy that the knower makes rather than discovers reality. As an alternative, she introduces readers to the integrative/eclective therapy movement and proposes "modest realism."More

9. Telling Without Talking: Art as a Window into the World of Multiple Personality

   Barry M. Cohen, Carol Thayer Cox

   This extensively illustrated book shows how abused individuals simultaneously express and camouflage dissociated and repressed information in drawings.More

10. Bread & Spirit: Therapy with the New Poor: Diversity of Race, Culture, and Values

    Harry J. Aponte

    "This is not another how-to book, although it is practical and applied. Instead, it is a book that addresses the tough situations and quandries facing therapists working with clients who differ from them in culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, or beliefs." --Contemporary PsychologyMore

11. Rehearsals for Growth: Theater Improvisation for Psychotherapists

    Daniel J. Wiener

    Reference for psychotherapists on the applications of improvisational theater to psychotherapy for groups, couples, family, and individuals.More

12. From Conflict to Resolution: Strategies for Diagnosis and Treatment of Distressed Individuals, Couples, and Families

    Susan M. Heitler

    "Heitler has established herself as a leader in what is evolving as an extraordinary, valuable integration of systems perspectives, cognitive and behavioral methodologies, and traditional views of personality and therapy."--Psychotherapy in Private PracticeMore

13. The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication

    Paul Watzlawick

    In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language.More

14. The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious

    Paul Watzlawick

    Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
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15. Conversations on Therapy: Popular Problems and Uncommon Solutions

    David R. Grove, Jay Haley

    Imagine being able to consult with Jay Haley about difficult therapy cases.More