Re-Imagining Therapy: Living Conversations and Relational Knowing

by Gregory Madan Smith and Eero Riikonen

Book Overview

Re-imagining Therapy explores the benefits to therapeutic practice of paying attention to how people relate to and with language - how ways of talking support different kinds of relationships and experiences. The authors draw on social constructionist, dialogic, narrative and solution-oriented approaches to argue that detachment′ and objectivity′ have impoverished our ways of understanding life and language. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803976542
• ISBN13: 9780803976542
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.