Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends

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 person’s lived experience, inviting a reflexive posture and encouraging a sense of authorship and reauthorship of one’s experiences and relationships in the telling and retelling of one’s story.

• Maps of Narrative Practice (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
• What is narrative therapy?: An easy-to-read introduction (Gecko 2000)
• Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
• Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
• Conversation, Language, And Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach To Therapy
• Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
• More Than Miracles (Haworth Brief Therapy)
• Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience
• Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Know-How
• Narrative Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy Series®)