Furthering Talk : Advances in the Discursive Therapies /

This significant volume brings together noted clinicians to offer practical ways of using narrative and other discursive methods of therapy. The innovative ideas presented build upon the social constructionist thinking that has influenced the field for the past decade. A range of timely topics are c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strong, Tom
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Paré, David A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Striving for Perspicuity: Talking Our Way Forward
  • Levinas: Therapy as Discourse Ethics
  • Acknowledging the Otherness of The Other: Poetic Knowing in Practice and the Fallacy of Misplaced Systematicity
  • Narrating the Difference
  • Power, Authority, and Pointless Activity: The Developmental Discourse of Social Therapy
  • A Postmodern Collaborative Approach: A Family's Reflections on "In-the-Room" and "On-the-Challenge Course" Therapy. It's all Language
  • The Client's Nonverbal Utterances, Creative Understanding & the Therapist's Inner Conversation
  • Discursive Approaches to Clinical Research
  • Coming to Terms with Violence and Resistance: From a Language of Effects to a Language of Responses
  • What's Love Got to do with it? Managing Discursive Positions and Mediating Conflict Within a Heterosexual Love Relationship
  • Certainties v. Epiphanies: Forensic Therapies and Adversarial Assessments
  • Mesmerizing Violent Offenders with a Slice of Life: Drama and Reflexivity in the Treatment of Men who Abuse their Spouses
  • Radical Youthwork: Creating and Becoming Everyone
  • Response-Able Practice: A Language of Gifts in the Institutions of Health Care
  • Therapy as a Social Construction: Back to Basics and Forward toward Challenging Issues.