In the Therapist's Mirror Reality in the Making

by Wedge, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780393702354
• ISBN10: 0393702359
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Wedge's central argument, presented clearly and illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience, even the experience of one's own self, is a construction of signs. Symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual, and drama create and shape our realities and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
A Reflected Reality	p. 1
The Mirror of Signs	p. 16
The Semiotic Self	p. 37
Constructing Family Values: Therapy and Fiction	p. 46
Reflexivity, Paradox, and Myth	p. 65
Reciprocal Sequences: The String Eater	p. 90
Repentance and Reparation in a Case of Sexual Abuse	p. 103
The Hub of the Wheel: Therapy as a Rite of Passage	p. 124
Children's School Problems	p. 137
Epilogue	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 165
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