David Epston is a world-renowned psychotherapist and co-originator of Narrative Therapy. His work focuses on helping individuals and communities construct new stories and meanings in their lives. Epston's approach delves into how people can reshape their self-perceptions and relationships through these narratives. He is celebrated for his creative and effective methods in facilitating profound personal and relational transformations.
This important book immediately draws the reader into the world of those struggling with anorexia/bulimia (a/b), whose stories, poems, and first-person accounts expose the 'voice' of these deadly problems.
The name Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war. Its desperate attempts to kill Adair culminated in October 1993, when a bomb on the Shankill Road, intended for the loyalist godfather, claimed the lives of nine Protestant civilians.
Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
Focusing on bicultural partnership frameworks, this book presents a collection of interviews and reflective meditations that explore their potential to enhance mental health treatment. It emphasizes the importance of integrating local cultural imperatives with effective psychiatric care, showcasing how this approach can lead to more holistic and effective mental health practices.
An Analysis of Torah Concepts Based on Discoveris in Space Exploration Physics and Biology.
Use of letter-writing in family therapy. White and Epston base their therapy on the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience. Therapy then becomes a process of storying or restorying the lives and experiences of these people. In this way narrative comes to play a central role in therapy. Both authors share delightful examples of a storied therapy that privileges a person’s lived experience, inviting a reflexive posture and encouraging a sense of authorship and reauthorship of one’s experiences and relationships in the telling and retelling of one’s story.