Narrative Therapy : Making Meaning, Making Lives

by Catrina Brown

• ISBN13: 9781412909884
• ISBN10: 1412909880
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

"This compilation is an insightful read for practitioners who have not taken the opportunity to use narrative therapy in practice...Experienced practitioners will certainly appreciate the theoretical analysis offered by the writers as well as the opportunity for reflective practice. Narrative Therapy is a meaningful contribution to a Canadian book market lacking in clinical literature for social workers" a??CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS Narrative Therapy:A Making Meaning, Making Lives A offers a comprehensive introduction to and critique of narrative therapy and its theories. This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of various feminist, post-modern and critical theories. Through the presentation of case studies, Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives A shows how this narrative-oriented theory can be applied in the client-therapist experience. Many important therapeutic situations (abuse, addictions, eating disorders, and more) are addressed from the narrative perspective.A A Rooted in social constructionism, and emerging initially from family therapy, narrative therapy emphasizes the idea that we live storied lives. Within this approach, the editors and contributors seek to show how we make sense of our lives and experiences by ascribing meaning through stories which themselves arise within social conversations and culturally available discourses. Our stories dona??t simply represent us or mirror lived events; they actually constitute usa??shaping our lives as well as our relationships.A A A Narrative Therapy A will be a valuable supplemental textbookA for theory and practice courses in departments of Counseling and Psychotherapy and of Social Work as well as for courses in Gender and Women Studies.A

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Postmodernism, Reflexivity, and Narrative Therapy	ix
Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott
Part I: Writing in the Social
1. Situating Knowledge and Power in the Therapeutic Alliance	3	(20)
Catrina Brown
2. Re-Storying Women's Depression: A Material-Discursive Approach	23	(16)
Michelle N. Lafrance and Janet M. Stoppard
3. The Blinding Power of Genetics: Manufacturing and Privatizing Stories of Eating Disorders	39	(20)
Karin Jasper
4. A Poetics of Resistance: Compassionate Practice in Substance Misuse Therapy	59	(18)
Colin James Sanders
5. Practicing Psychiatry Through a Narrative Lens: Working With Children, Youth, and Families	77	(28)
Normand Carrey
Part II: Self-Surveillance: Normalizing Practices of Self
6. Discipline and Desire: Regulating the Body/Self	105	(28)
Catrina Brown
7. Watching the Other Watch: A Social Location of Problems	133	(18)
Stephen Madigan
8. Internalized Homophobia: Lessons From the Mobius Strip	151	(26)
Glenda M. Russell
Part III: Challenging Essentialism
9. Dethroning the Suppressed Voice: Unpacking Experience as Story	177	(20)
Catrina Brown
10. Conversations With Men About Women's Violence: Ending Men's Violence by Challenging Gender Essentialism	197	(14)
Tod Augusta-Scott
11. Challenging Essentialist Anti-Oppressive Discourse: Uniting Against Racism and Sexism	211	(18)
Tod Augusta-Scott
Part IV: Re-Authoring Preferred Identities
12. Movement of Identities: A Map for Therapeutic Conversations About Trauma	229	(22)
Jim Duvall and Laura Béres
13. Letters From Prison: Re-Authoring Identity With Men Who Have Perpetrated Sexual Violence	251	(18)
Tod Augusta-Scott
14. Talking Body Talk: Merging Feminist and Narrative Approaches to Practice	269	(34)
Catrina Brown
Index	303	(18)
About the Editors	321	(2)
About the Contributors	323