Poststructural and Narrative Thinking in Family Therapy

✍ Scribed by Victoria Dickerson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 103
• Series: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This brief applies variations in poststructural thinking and practice to the field of family therapy. Poststructural thinking pervades the world of therapeutic practice in ways that are often invisible to both the theoretician as well as the practitioner. In this brief, the authors focus on what poststructuralism has brought to our understanding. What follows are chapters that speak to training and teaching principles as well as to practices that draw on ideas about “becoming,” “relationality,” and “the aesthetics of engagement." Each chapter builds on the other with the last one reprising a key component of narrative understanding. From a teaching institution in Auckland, NZ to an online training program in Minneapolis, from new thinking about “auto-ethnography” to a “de-centered” practice to “poetic” resistance, the chapters in this brief offer exciting ideas and practice possibilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
What Is Narrative Therapy? Poststructural and Narrative Thinking in Family Therapy Practice....Pages 1-7
Poststructural Inquiry: Narrative Therapy’s De-Centered and Influential Stance....Pages 9-27
Re-imagining Family: Growing Family Therapy Practice from the Rhizome of Autoethnography....Pages 29-43
Constructing Matrilineal Connections in a Remembering Conversation....Pages 45-60
Toward an Aesthetics of Engagement....Pages 61-81
How Narrative Therapy Principles Inform Practice for Therapists and Helping Professionals: Illustrated with Vignettes....Pages 83-97

✦ Subjects

Psychotherapy and Counseling;Social Work;Psychotherapy