Maps of Narrative Practice

Maps of Narrative Practice (Norton Professional Books) [Hardcover]

Author: Michael White | Language: English | ISBN: 0393705161 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Maps of Narrative Practice
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Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, is back with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990.

Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The book covers each of the five main areas of narrative practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations, scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth, of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice essential to their clinical work.

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• Series: Norton Professional Books
• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (May 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393705161
• ISBN-13: 978-0393705164
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
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I suspect Philip didn't actually read Maps of Narrative Practice, just glanced at the index. If he'd read it, he'd have found it to be a clear, precise, moving, warm, and effective tool kit for those therapists who are interested in further developing their skills.
White has been developing these ideas over decades, but this is his first mainstream book, hence the references to his own works. He's not writing just to publish, he's writing to give as clear a map as he can of his own highly successful methods.
I can't think of a book more profound in its potential effects than Maps of Narrative Practice. Broad use of these therapeutic methods and maps will result, I believe, in stronger communities, in greater joy, in people finding meaning and worth where they didn't before recognize its presence, moving from feeling useless to feeling the power to shape their lives in harmony with what they value.
White's ideas build on and incorporate concepts of identity and learning uncovered by Myerhoff, Bruner, Vygotsky, and other greats, but, most important of all, his ideas come from his work with clients. His miraculously open mind allows him to find, and recognize, simply, what works, rather than what ought to work. I would almost say he comes at this with a sort of blue collar innocence, pragmatic, calm, genuinely concerned, confident of the possibility of discovering a scaffold to new ideas for even the most "hopeless" cases.
Rather than being all puffed up about his importance, he's as unassuming as a plumber coming to unclog your toilet, which, let's face it, is a pretty good analogy of what a therapist hopes to accomplish in the realms of psyche.
I don't know White's background. I only know that he tells the truth in plainly eloquent human language.

This is a fantastic book for psychotherapists who want to learn more about narrative therapy. In this rigorous and graceful new book, Michael White has created a definitive text of theory and practice. Beautifully organized and a pleasure to read, it brings theory alive with colorful transcripts of therapy in every chapter and offers examples and instructions for applying narrative practices with the full range of mental health challenges that psychiatrists and therapists may be called upon to address. While it is an excellent, accessible introduction, as an experienced narrative therapist, I draw upon its thoroughness, precision and subtlety to invigorate and improve my work.
White maps out key territories of narrative practice, deftly linking theory with sentence-by-sentence analysis of therapeutic conversations. The book begins with the core narrative concept "externalizing the problem". White says, "When the problem becomes an entity that is separate from the person, and when people are not tied to... negative "certainties" about their lives, new options for taking action to address the predicaments of their lives become available." Relinquishing a shameful "spoiled" identity (for example, as a "crazy" person) to claim an identity as a person who is resisting and trying to overcome a challenging problem (such as "worries" or "negativity") energizes and inspires clients---and the clinicians working with them. Continuing in this "re-authoring" vein, the smallest successes in limiting a problem are elicited, named, fleshed out and historicized, making available a new story of the person's knowledge and skills in coping that can be drawn from and built upon.

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