
1st Edition
Interacting Stories
Narratives, Family Beliefs and Therapy
Copyright Year 1997
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Book Description
This book, offering reader the opportunity to reflect on ideas in the field of systemic and family therapy, examines the cross-fertilization of ideas that can result from an integration of systemic theory, personal construct theory, and the influential work on the analysis of narratives.
Table of Contents
Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Cybernetics and family therapy -- The roots of constructivist systemic therapy: nothing convinces like success -- Beliefs, accounts, and narratives -- Choosing narratives and interacting -- Dominant narratives—social constructionist perspectives -- Narratives, distortions, and myths -- Evolving and dissolving problems: a co-constructional approach