"This book also represents issue #1 of Gecko: a journal of deconstruction and narrative ideas in therapeudic use." -- Title page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132) and index.
Contents:
Part one. What is narrative therapy? -- Understanding and living our lives through stories -- Stories in the therapeutic context -- Externalising conversations: naming the problem -- Tracing the history of the problem -- Exploring the effects of the problem -- Situating the problem in context: deconstruction -- Discovering unique outcomes -- Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story. Part two. Thickening the alternative story -- Re-membering conversations -- Therapeutic documentation -- Therapeutic letters -- Rituals and celebrations -- Expanding the conversation -- Outsider-witness groups and definitional ceremonies.
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