Interacting Stories: Narratives, Family Beliefs and Therapy (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

A critical reflection on the ideas that have shaped systemic and family therapy over the last years. COVER 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 CONTENTS 10 EDITORS' FOREWORD 12 FOREWORD 14 INTERACTING STORIES 18 INTRODUCTION 20 CHAPTER ONE Cybernetics and family therapy 28 CHAPTER TWO The roots of constructivist systemic therapy: nothing convinces like success 52 CHAPTER THREE Beliefs, accounts, and narratives 80 CHAPTER FOUR Choosing narratives and interacting 126 CHAPTER FIVE Dominant narratives- social constructionist perspectives 154 CHAPTER SIX Narratives, distortions, and myths 188 CHAPTER SEVEN Evolving and dissolving problems: a co-constructional approach 216 REFERENCES 240 INDEX 250 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.