David Epston je svetovo uznávaný psychoterapeut a spoluautor Naratívnej terapie. Jeho práca sa sústreďuje na vytváranie nových príbehov a významov v životoch ľudí. Epston sa zameriava na to, ako môžu ľudia pretvárať svoje sebapojatie a vzťahy. Jeho prístup pomáha jednotlivcom aj komunitám nachádzať silu a odolnosť.
This important book immediately draws the reader into the world of those struggling with anorexia/bulimia (a/b), whose stories, poems, and first-person accounts expose the 'voice' of these deadly problems.
Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
Focusing on bicultural partnership frameworks, this book presents a collection of interviews and reflective meditations that explore their potential to enhance mental health treatment. It emphasizes the importance of integrating local cultural imperatives with effective psychiatric care, showcasing how this approach can lead to more holistic and effective mental health practices.
Use of letter-writing in family therapy. White and Epston base their therapy on the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience. Therapy then becomes a process of storying or restorying the lives and experiences of these people. In this way narrative comes to play a central role in therapy. Both authors share delightful examples of a storied therapy that privileges a person’s lived experience, inviting a reflexive posture and encouraging a sense of authorship and reauthorship of one’s experiences and relationships in the telling and retelling of one’s story.