This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind.

Contents:

• A note from the publisher
• PART ONE: WHAT IS NARRATIVE THERAPY?: Introduction
• 1: Understanding and living our lives through stories
• 2: Stories in the therapeutic context
• 3: Externalising conversations: naming the problem
• 4: Tracing the history of the problem
• 5: Exploring the effects of the problem
• 6: Situating the problem in context: deconstruction
• 7: Discovering unique outcomes
• 8: Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming the alternative story
• PART TWO – THICKENING THE ALTERNATIVE STORY: Introduction
• 9: Re-membering conversations
• 10: Therapeutic documentation
• 11: Therapeutic letters
• 12: Rituals and celebrations
• 13: Expanding the conversation
• 14: Outside witness groups and definitional ceremonies
• Closing remarks