Describes and details assessment and intervention strategies focusing on client story-telling and story reconstruction to promote positive change in clients. This title highlights various approaches and dimensions of narrative therapy and includes therapy session examples and case materials. It suggests connections between and among approaches.

A primary goal is to bring together multiple approaches with the aim of promoting a dialogue among differing narrative traditions and synthesizing a more integrated understanding of client story-telling processes in psychotherapy. The editors have aimed for a balance between practice, applied research findings, and background theory. Features//Benefits: }an international "who's-who" cast of contributing authors highlights the various approaches and dimensions of narrative therapy by the people commanding the most authority and attention (e.g., Jerome Bruner, Michael White, Donald Polkinghorne, etc.). } therapy session examples and case materials demonstrate narrative interventions in action. } clear and consistent guidelines informed each chapter; these, along with an opening } preface and a closing chapter by the volume editors, provide unity and suggest connections between and among approaches.

Preface, by Lynne Angus &
John McLeod PART ONE.
THE 'NARRATIVE TURN': WHY STORIES MATTER IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 1. The Narrative Creation of Self, by Jerome Bruner 2. Folk Psychology &
Narrative Practices, by Michael White 3. Narrative Therapy &
Postmodernism, by Donald Polkinghorne PART TWO.
WORKING WITH NARRATIVE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 4. The CCRT Approach to Working with Patient Narratives in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, by Howard Book 5. "What's the Story?" Working with Narrative in Experimental Psychotherapy, by Lynne Angus, Jennifer Lewin, Beverly Bowes-Bouffard, &
Debra Rotondi-Trevisan 6. Nurturing Nature: Cognitive Narrative Strategies, by Oscar Goncalves, Margarida Henriques, &
Paulo Machado 7. Working with Narrative in Psychotherapy: A Relational Constructivist Approach, by Luis Botella, Olga Herrero, Meritxell Pacheco, &
Sergei Corbella 8. A Poststructuralist Approach to Narrative Work, by Gene Combs &
Jill Freedman PART THREE.
NARRATIVE IDENTITY &
SELF-MULTIPLICITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY 9. Narrative Identity &
Narrative Therapy, by Dan McAdams 10. The Innovation of Self-Narrative: A Dialogical Approach, by Hubert Hermans 11. Assimilation &
Narrative: Stories as Meaning Bridges, by Katerine Osatuke, Meredith Glick, Michael Gray, D'Arcy Reynolds, Jr., Carol Humphreys, Lisa Salvi, &
William Stiles 12. Minding Our Therapeutic Tales:
Treatments in Perspectivism, by Robert Russell &
Fred B. Bryant PART FOUR.
NARRATIVE ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 13. Self-defining Memories, Narrative Identity &
Psychotherapy: A Conceptual Model, Empirical Investigation &
Case Report, by Jefferson Singer &
Pavel Blagov 14. The Narrative Assessment Interview: Assessing Self-change in Psychotherapy, by Karen Hardtke &
Lynne Angus 15. Disorganized Narratives: The Psychological Condition &
Its Treatment, by Giancarlo Dimaggio &
Antonio Semerari 16. Story Dramaturgy &
Personal Conflict: JAKOB - A Tool for Narrative Understanding &
Psychotherapeutic Pratice, by Brigitte Boothe &
Agnes von Wyl PART FIVE.
EMERGING TRENDS &
FUTURE DIRECTIONS 17. Narrative Activity: Clients' &
Therapists' Intentions in the Process of Narration in Psychotherapy, by Heidi M. Levitt &
David L. Rennie 18. "To Tell My Story": Configuring Interpersonal Relations with Narrative Processes, by Timothy Anderson 19. The Contributions of Emotion Processes to Narrative Change in Psychotherapy: A Dialectical Constructivist Approach, by Leslie Greenberg &
Lynne Angus 20. Social Constuctionism, Narrative, &
Psychotherapy, by John McLeod 21. Towards an Integrative Framework for Understanding the Role of Narrative in the Psychotherapy Process, by Lynne Angus &
John McLeod