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Article: Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities
- Article from:
- Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Jul 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Freedman, J., & Combs, G. (1996). Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. New York: W. W. Norton, 305 pp., $39.00.
Jill Freedman and Gene Combs provide a thorough and clear overview of narrative therapy with abundant interview notes as examples to explain the theory behind it. There are 10 chapters in total with four segments in the book: (1) philosophical aspects of the narrative/social constructionist worldview, (2) the basics of the authors' clinical work, (3) various ways of "thickening" new narratives and circulating them within peoples' community, (4) the relationship between ethics and the authors' work. The outline is comprehensive and the reading is ...