Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postmodernism, Reflexivity, and Narrative Therapy
Part I - Writing in the Social
Chapter 1 - Situating Knowledge and Power in the Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 2 - Re-Storying Women\'s Depression: A Material-Discursive Approach
Chapter 3 - The Blinding Power of Genetics: Manufacturing and Privatizing Stories of Eating Disorders
Chapter 4 - A Poetics of Resistance: Compassionate Practice in Substance Misuse Therapy
Chapter 5 - Practicing Psychiatry Through a Narrative Lens: Working With Children, Youth, and Families
Part II - Self-Surveillance: Normalizing Practices of Self
Chapter 6 - Discipline and Desire: Regulating the Body/Self
Chapter 7 - Watching the Other Watch: A Social Location of Problems
Chapter 8 - Internalized Homophobia: Lessons From the Mobius Strip
Part III - Challenging Essentialism
Chapter 9 - Dethroning the Suppressed Voice: Unpacking Experience as Story
Chapter 10 - Conversations With Men About Women\'s Violence: Ending Men\'s Violence by Challenging Gender Essentialism
Chapter 11 - Challenging Essentialist Anti-Oppressive Discourse: Uniting Against Racism and Sexism
Part IV - Re-Authoring Preferred Identities
Chapter 12 - Movement of Identities: A Map for Therapeutic Conversations About Trauma
Chapter 13 - Letters From Prison: Re-Authoring Identity With Men Who Have Perpetrated Sexual Violence
Chapter 14 - Talking Body Talk: Merging Feminist and Narrative Approaches to Practice
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors