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Recreating Brief Therapy Jane E. Peller

Recreating Brief Therapy By Jane E. Peller

Recreating Brief Therapy by Jane E. Peller


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Summary

Emerging out of the traditions of Ericksonian, strategic, and solution-focused therapies, this book redescribes and reconceives brief therapy in light of postmodern and pragmatic thinking.

Recreating Brief Therapy Summary

Recreating Brief Therapy: Preferences and Possibilities by Jane E. Peller

The result is personal consultation, with a focus on conversation and inquiries that gently guide the pursuit of desire. This approach embraces a diversity of longings, goals, and ways of being in the world.

The key question, underlying both the authors' research and their consultative conversations, is 'How can we create a space for dialogue and wonder, where purpose, preferences, and possibilities can emerge?'

This question leads to many others, which form the basis for the chapters of the book. Each inquiry is illustrated by case excerpts that show where this approach diverges from strategic and solution-focused questioning. The situations are difficult--crack addiction, marital separation, suicidal despair, etc.--and yet the consultant's stance of being 'curious with' the client leads to signs of hope and pathways toward a better future. In this pragmatic approach, previously unspoken desires take precedence over goals set by others, and what is preferred becomes possible.

About Jane E. Peller

Jane E. Peller, L.C.S.W., is professor of social work at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. John L. Walter, M.S.W., is a well-known therapist and workshop presenter with a private practice in Chicago.

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GOR005627357
9780393703252
0393703258
Recreating Brief Therapy: Preferences and Possibilities by Jane E. Peller
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20000510
208
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