| Description |
xix, 362 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
If you really knew me : an exploration of therapeutic concerns in collabotating with the "damaged" self / Reese Price ; commentary / Stephen Gilligan -- Invitations to new stories : using questions to explore alternative possibilities / Jill Freedman and Gene Combs ; commentary / Jeff Chang -- Language solutions for mind-body problems / James L. Griffith and Melissa Elliott Griffith ; commentary / Gene Combs and Jill Freedman -- Beware the Sirens' song : the AGS Commission model / Ernest Salamon, Klas Grevelius, and Mia Andersson |
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Internalized other questioning with couples : the New Zealand version / David Epston -- Commentary : systems of understanding, practices of relationship, and practices of self / Michael White -- Bringing forth the restraining influence of pattern in couples therapy / Jeffrey L. Zimmerman and Victoria C. Dickerson ; commentary / Janet Adams-Westcott -- Questions about questions : situating the therapist's curiosity in front of the family / Stephen Patrick Madigan ; commentary / David Epston -- Therapeutic rituals : passages into new identities / Stephen Gilligan ; commentary / Stephen P. Madigan -- Escaping victim life stories and co-constructing personal agency / Janet Adams-Westcott, Thomas A. Dafforn, and Patricia Sterne ; commentary / Jill Freedman and Gene Combs |
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Possibility therapy : from iatrogenic injury to iatrogenic healing / William Hudson O'Hanlon ; commentary / John H. Weakland -- Destruction and therapy / Michael White -- The courage to protest : a commentary on Michael White's work / Karl Tomm -- Creative misunderstanding : there is no escape from language / Steve de Shazer ; commentary / Stephen Gilligan -- Michael White and Steve de Shazer : new directions in family therapy / Jeff Chang and Michele Phillips -- Commentary : de Shazer & White : vive la différence / Steve de Shazer -- Commentary : the histories of the present / Michael White -- Conversation-- but what kind? / John H. Weakland ; commentary / Steve de Shazer -- Pro-constructed realities / Michele Weiner-Davis ; commentary / William Hudson O'Hanlon -- Internalizing discourses versus externalizing discourses / David Epston ; commentary / William Hudson O'Hanlon |
| Summary |
"On the leading edge of the new solution-oriented and narrative approaches, this book presents groundbreaking work converging around the idea that psychotherapy is primarily a special kind of conversation that elicits clients' strengths, competencies, and solutions. The therapist is seen as an expert in creating conversations that reveal clients' expertise and empower them to change." "The book was conceived around a conference that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1992. In the meeting rooms and the hallways, over morning coffee and late into the night, the conversations among all conference participants - presenters and attendees - were intense and dynamic. People engaged in ongoing conversations about therapy, defining and redefining their positions in, as Bill O'Hanlon has called it, "the third wave" of psychotherapy. Readers will sense the flavor and excitement of those Tulsa discussions in the dialogue of chapters and commentaries in Therapeutic Conversations." "Here contributors not only present their latest views on ways to empower clients but also discuss such issues as positioning of the therapist, time as a dimension in psychotherapy, the uses of rituals and stories, and the differences been "exceptions" and "unique outcomes." Representing various perspectives on narrative, conversational, and solution-focused therapies, the contributors include, among others, Bill O'Hanlon, Steve de Shazer, John Weakland, Michele Weiner-Davis, and Stephen Gilligan. There is a distinctly international flavor, with contributions from Karl Tomm of Canada, Michael White of Australia, and David Epston of New Zealand." "Whether venturing into the Theoretical Conversations of Part I or the Clinical Applications of Part II, readers will find themselves stimulated not only to try new ways to converse therapeutically but also to participate in the continuing conversation that defines the practice of psychotherapy."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Psychotherapy |
| Notes |
"A Norton professional book." |
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"[This book] ... contains the papers presented at the conference, along with the commentaries given by other faculty members." -- p. xvii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychotherapist and patient -- Congresses.
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Psychotherapy -- Congresses.
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Psychotherapy.
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Professional-Patient Relations.
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Psychotherapy.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Gilligan, Stephen G., 1954-
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Price, Reese, 1952-
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| LC no. |
92031745 |
| ISBN |
039370145X |
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