Interacting Stories - Narratives, Family Beliefs and Therapy

This book, offering reader the opportunity to reflect on ideas in the field of systemic and family therapy, examines the cross-fertilization of ideas that can result from an integration of systemic theory, personal construct theory, and the influential work on the analysis of narratives.

List of contents

Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Cybernetics and family therapy -- The roots of constructivist systemic therapy: nothing convinces like success -- Beliefs, accounts, and narratives -- Choosing narratives and interacting -- Dominant narratives—social constructionist perspectives -- Narratives, distortions, and myths -- Evolving and dissolving problems: a co-constructional approach

About the author

Rudi Dallos is Programme Director and Professor in Clinical Psychology on the Plymouth University doctoral training course in clinical psychology. He is also a consultant clinical psychologist and teaches on several family therapy training courses. He has published a number books including 'Researching Psychotherapy and Counselling' (2005, co-written with Arlene Vetere), 'Attachment Narrative Therapy' (2006) and 'Reflective Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling' (2009, co-edited with Jacqui Stedmon).

Product details

• Authors: Rudi Dallos, Dallos Rudi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325121
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32512-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy