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Narrative & Strategic Therapies

1. Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

   David Denborough

   Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change.More

2. Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations

   Michael White

   Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.More

3. Innovations in Narrative Therapy: Connecting Practice, Training, and Research

   Jim Duvall, Laura Béres

   Presenting a compelling evidence base for narrative therapy.More

4. 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

5. 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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6. 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

7. 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

8. Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making Perspective

   Mary Baird Carlsen

   "Don't let therapists and counselors keep this unique book to themselves! Every man and woman who feels 'the first cool winds of evening' can take heart from this visionary yet down-to-earth exploration of creative potential in the later years of life. This is a book that can change lives." —Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of Adult DevelopmentMore

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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