Product Description

This work describes the clinical application of ideas and practices that has come to be known as "narrative therapy". It traces guiding metaphors of family therapy that have led to the narrative metaphor, and explains the basic ideas of postmodern philosophy that constitute its theoretical base.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205341 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, accessible introduction to narrative therapy
Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I thought it pertinent in this circumstance to offer mine. Ruplins of Portland states that "Freedman and Combs do not grasp the constructivist approach used by White and Epston." I was really taken aback by such an assertion, because my reading of the book couldn't be more at odds. I welcomed the book when it was published and was delighted that it provided under one cover a comprehensive and accessible introduction to narrative therapy without compromising the relevance of its politics and poetics. In addition, the authors' chapter on questions extends narrative work in ways I have read and re-read very carefully. I strongly recommend everyone who I am involved with in training/consultation and those seeking merely an introduction to narrative therapy to read it. If I were considering a degree program of any sort, I would expect this book to be required reading. I agree with Michael White when he described the book as "quite a feat!"