Recreating Brief Therapy: Preferences and Possibilities

by John L. Walter, Jane Peller, Jane E. Peller

Book Overview

The result is personal consultation, with a focus on conversation and inquiries that gently guide the pursuit of desire. This approach embraces a diversity of longings, goals, and ways of being in the world.

The key question, underlying both the authors' research and their consultative conversations, is 'How can we create a space for dialogue and wonder, where purpose, preferences, and possibilities can emerge?'

This question leads...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393703258
• ISBN13: 9780393703252
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Practical and useful!

A guidebook to narrative therapy that has to be one of the moststraightforward on the subject. Walter and Peller have taken the bestfrom their previous work on solution-based therapy and blended it with narrative therapy to come up with a down-to-earth guide that changes how we conceptualize brief therapy and counseling. Unlike the expert model that still dominates much of psychotherapy, Walter and Peller emphasize conversation as a collaborative approach to helping clients reshape, reframe and retell the stories that guide how they think, feel and act. The five basic inquires that are used to maintain this special conversation are explained in separate chapters and illustrated with supporting case examples. The book isn't just for therapists--I think you'll find it helpful if you are in any people-helping position.

Practical and useful!

A guidebook to narrative therapy that has to be one of the most straightforward on the subject. Walter and Peller have taken the best from their previous work on solution-based therapy and blended it with narrative therapy to come up with a down-to-earth guide that changes how we conceptualize brief therapy and counseling. Unlike the expert model that still dominates much of psychotherapy, Walter and Peller emphasize conversation as a collaborative approach to helping clients reshape, reframe and retell the stories that guide how they think, feel and act. The five basic inquires that are used to maintain this special conversation are explained in separate chapters and illustrated with supporting case examples. The book isn't just for therapists--I think you'll find it helpful if you are in any people-helping position.

Practical and useful!

A guidebook to narrative therapy that has to be one of the most straightforward on the subject. Walter and Peller have taken the best from their previous work on solution-based therapy and blended it with narrative therapy to come up with a down-to-earth guide that changes how we conceptualize brief therapy and counseling. Unlike the expert model that still dominates much of psychotherapy, Walter and Peller emphasize conversation as a collaborative approach to helping clients reshape, reframe and retell the stories that guide how they think, feel and act. The five basic inquires that are used to maintain this special conversation are explained in separate chapters and illustrated with supporting case examples. The book isn't just for therapists--I think you'll find it helpful if you are in any people-helping position.

The Next Step in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

When John Walter and Jane Peller wrote Becoming Solution-Focused in Brief Therapy they gave the therapy profession an invaluable basic handbook of solution-focused therapy. I learned a great deal from it; so have my students and trainees. In Recreating Brief Therapy, Walter and Peller tell us about the evolution of their ideas and techniques, offering clear, practical suggestions for moving beyond the basics. Recreating Brief Therapy is essential and exciting read for all clinician, brief or otherwise, interested in taking the next step in learning to host therapeutic conversations that can make a difference for our clients. Phillip Ziegler,co-author of Recreating Partnership: A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy...