Product Description

Narrative therapy is one of the most commonly practised forms of therapy. In the first major book from this leader in the field, each chapter provides an overview of a main area of narrative therapy by explaining how it works and detailing the psychotherapeutic implications of these conversations. This is essential reading for anyone in psychotherapy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87568 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

An essential resource for therapists
Maps of Narrative practice is a clear, precise, moving, warm, and effective tool kit for those therapists who are interested in further developing their skills.
I can't think of a book more profound in its potential effects than this book. Broad use of these therapeutic methods and maps will result, I believe, in stronger communities, in greater joy, in people finding meaning and worth where they didn't before recognize its presence, moving from feeling useless to feeling the power to shape their lives in harmony with what they value.
White's ideas build on and incorporate concepts of identity and learning uncovered by Myerhoff, Bruner, Vygotsky, and other greats, but, most important of all, his ideas come from his work with clients. His miraculously open mind allows him to find, and recognize, what works, rather than what ought to work. He comes at this with a sort of working class pragmatism, calm, genuinely concerned, confident of the possibility of discovering a scaffold to new ideas for even the most "hopeless" cases.
Rather than being all puffed up about his importance, he's as unassuming as a plumber coming to unclog your toilet (a pretty good analogy of what a therapist hopes to accomplish in the realms of psyche).
I don't know White's background. I only know that he tells the truth in plainly eloquent human language.
He provides structures of inquiry based on how we develop concepts and learn to navigate, so the work flows. The outcomes are always surprising, and it's clear that White's pleasure in this work arises from being witness to these flowerings of possibility.
Therapists with the desire to serve as agents to their clients' authorship of their own lives will find White's concepts invaluable.
His brief notes, interspersed throughout the book, on how he arrived at his methods, provide a useful template for anyone setting out to learn how to learn.
White's voice is delightful, unique, personal. His fresh and open look at who we are and how we become will serve up treasures I think you'll be glad to incorporate into your own practice.