Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives
"This book addresses so many of my unsettled questions at the narrative/ postmodern crossroads. The book is like an outstretched hand that arrived to take me from the edge of my thinking and invite me to venture a few steps further toward clarity and complexity. I found the book overall to be a mind-stretching invitation to turn up the volume on our reflexivity. It read like narrative theory to the second power (narrative X narrative) which offers expanded opportunities to be curious, multi-storied, and reflective — but also political and deconstructive."(Susie Snyder 2006-06-29)"Blending modernist and postmodernist approaches, the contributors offer a variety of case studies that apply narrative therapy to a wide range of problems."(SciTechBook News2006-12-05)"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"—CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (Eugenia Repetur MorenoCASW2007-10-08)"This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy.  It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCCRITIQUES(Alejandra Suarez and Douglas M. KerrPSYCCRITIQUES2007-12-14)