Healing with Stories
Series: | |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Subject: | Metaphor--Therapeutic use, Child psychotherapy, Metaphor, Psychotherapy--methods, Narration |
Authors: | George W. Burns , George William Burns |
Pages: | 277 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN: | 9780471789024 |
Call No: | RJ 505. M48 H4343 2007 |
Healing with Stories brings together a stellar collection of some of the world's most prominent practitioners, taking you inside their thinking and processes for working with metaphors. They represent the panorama of metaphor practice in psychotherapy today with considered, humorous, and compassionate case examples that step you through the intricacies for replicating their work in your own. This is a book for family therapists who work with children, adults, and families, as well as for hypnotherapists, cognitive behavioral therapists, narrative therapists, dynamic therapists, solution-focused therapists, and child therapists. In fact, all therapists who wish to communicate their therapeutic messages with the greatest effectiveness will find this book to be an essential and useful clinical tool.