Furthering Talk : Advances in the Discursive Therapies

Brings together noted clinicians to offer practical ways of using narrative and other discursive methods of therapy. This book covers a range of topics including sections on addressing violence, discursive research, and "dialogues" with the authors to demonstrate how these therapies are carried out. It is aimed at clinicians and graduate students.

Striving for Perspicuity: Talking Our Way Forward; Tom Strong and David Paré.-Levinas: Therapy as Discourse Ethics; Glenn Larner with Peter Rober and Tom Strong.-Acknowledging the Otherness of The Other: Poetic Knowing in Practice and the Fallacy of Misplaced Systematicity; Arlene Katz M. and John Shotter with Jaakko Siekkula.-Narrating the Difference; Johnella Bird with Catherine Cook.- Power, Authority, and Pointless Activity: The Developmental Discourse of Social Therapy; Lois Holzman and Fred Newman with Tom Strong.- A Postmodern Collaborative Approach: A Family''s Reflections on ''In-the-Room'' and ''On-the-Challenge Course'' Therapy. It''s all Language; Harlene Anderson and Paul Burney with Sue Levin.- The Client''s Nonverbal Utterances, Creative Understanding & the Therapist''s Inner Conversation; Peter Rober with Glenn Larner and David Paré.- Discursive Approaches to Clinical Research; Jerry Gale and John Lawless with Kathryn Roulston.- Coming to Terms with Violence and Resistance: From a Language of Effects to a Language of Responses; Nick Todd and Alan Wade with Martine Renoux.- What''s Love Got to do with it? Managing Discursive Positions and Mediating Conflict Within a Heterosexual Love Relationship; Gerald Monk and Stacey L. Sinclair with Craig Smith.- Certainties v. Epiphanies: Forensic Therapies and Adversarial Assessments; Tom Conran with Tom Strong and Bradford Keeney.- Mesmerizing Violent Offenders with a Slice of Life: Drama and Reflexivity in the Treatment of Men who Abuse their Spouses; Bill Hanec with Don Baker.- Radical Youthwork: Creating and Becoming Everyone; Hans Skott-Myhre with Jessica Skott-Myhre, Kathy Skott-Myrhe and Reggie Harris.- Response-Able Practice: A Language of Gifts in the Institutions of Health Care; Christopher J. Kinman and Peter Finck with Lynn Hoffman.- Therapy as a Social Construction: Back to Basics and Forward toward Challenging Issues; Sheila McNameewith Lois Shawver.