Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • Part I. The "Narrative Turn": Why Stories Matter in Psychotherapy.
  • Chapter 1. The Narrative Creation of Self
  • Jerome Bruner
  • Chapter 2. Folk Psychology and Narrative Practices
  • Michael White
  • Chapter 3. Narrative Therapy and Postmodernism
  • Donald Polkinghorne
  • Part II. Working with Narrative in Psychotherapy
  • Chapter 4. The CCRT Approach to Working with Patient Narratives in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Howard Book
  • Chapter 5. "What's the Story?" Working with Narrative in Experiential Psychotherapy
  • Lynne Angus, Jennifer Lewin, Beverley Bowes-Bouffard, and Debra Rotondi-Trevisan.
  • Chapter 6. Nurturing Nature: Cognitive Narrative Strategies.
  • Oscar Gonȧlves, Margarida Henriques, and Paulo Machado
  • Chapter 7. Working with Narrative in Psychotherapy: A Relational Constructivist Approach
  • Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, Meritxell Pacheco, and Sergi Corbella.
  • Chapter 8. A Poststructuralist Approach to Narrative Work
  • Gene Combs and Jill Freedman.
  • Part III. Narrative Identity and Self-multiplicity: Implications for Psychotherapy
  • Chapter 9. Narrative Identity and Narrative Therapy
  • Dan McAdams
  • Chapter 10. The Innovation of Self-Narrative: A Dialogical Approach
  • Hubert Hermans
  • Chapter 11. Assimilation and Narrative: Stories as Meaning Bridges
  • Katerine Otasuke, Meredith Glick, Michael Gray, D'Arcy Reynolds Jr., Carol Humphries, Lisa Salvi, and William Stiles.
  • Chapter 12. Minding Our Therapeutic Tales: Treatments in Perspectivism
  • Robert L. Russell and Fred B. Bryant
  • Part IV. Narrative Assessment Strategies in Psychotherapy
  • Chapter 13. Self-defining Memories, Narrative Identity and Psychotherapy: A Conceptual Model, Empirical Investigation and Case Report.
  • Jefferson Singer and Pavel Blagov
  • Chapter 14. The Narrative Assessment Interview: Assessing Self-change in Psychotherapy
  • Karen Hardtke and Lynne Angus
  • Chapter 15. Disorganized Narratives: The Psychological Condition and Its Treatment
  • Giancarlo Dimaggio and Antonio Semerari
  • Chapter 16. Story Dramaturgy and Personal Conflict: JAKOB?A Tool for Narrative Understanding and Psychotherapeutic Practice
  • Brigitte Boothe and Agnes von Wyl
  • Part V. Emerging Trends and Future Directions
  • Chapter 17. Narrative Activity: Clients' and Therapists' Intentions in the Process of Narration in Psychotherapy
  • Heidi M. Levitt & David L. Rennie
  • Chapter 18. "To Tell My Story": Configuring Interpersonal Relations with Narrative Processes
  • Timothy Anderson
  • Chapter 19. The Contributions of Emotion Processes to Narrative Change in Psychotherapy: A Dialectical Constructivist Approach
  • Leslie Greenberg and Lynne Angus
  • Chapter 20. Social Constructionism, Narrative and Psychotherapy
  • John McLeod.
  • Chapter 21. Towards an Integrative Framework for Understanding the Role of Narrative in the Psychotherapy Process
  • Lynne Angus and John McLeod
  • Index
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors.