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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.
The use of writing-ie, letters, documents, certificates-as a means by which patient defines relationship with the problem
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Anthony Chung
reviewed Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends on March 22, 2011 Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
One of my top 25 and probably top 10 psychotherapy books, well worthy of this current re-read. I heart Michael White, and am glad I had the chance to meet him at the eighth Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in 2005. As a former English grad student and lover of critical theory, I'm thoroughly enamored of the politics of empowerment that underlies Narrative Therapy, in particular the social constructionist notion that no-one has a monopoly on 'Truth.' Anyone who is able to make the work of Michel Foucault both legible and palatable to the layperson, as well as apply Foucaultian (I say Foucaultian, you say Foucauldian... let's call the whole thing off) critiques of Power/Knowledge and discourses directly to helping people live more fulfilling lives, is a hero in my book.
I identify with the notion that most of experience goes by un-noticed until "storied," and that when people come to get therapy, they're experiencing problems of living, problems which all too often become intertwined with identity as they're telling/living their story (e.g., "I am depressed" or "I am anxious"), and Narrative Therapy helps to separate out the problem from the person by "externalizing" the problem and working to facilitate "re-authoring" of the individual's story. However, the whole notion that "the problem, not the person, is the problem" does not imply that White is not interested in dynamics (history), as history often reveals that the problem is a solution to another problem.
This book and this model of therapy profoundly influences me not only as a psychologist, but also as a living person who continuously authors and re-authors his own experience, something that White helps me to do consciously and intentionally rather than implicitly/unconsciously.
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