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(2016) Poststructural and narrative thinking in family therapy, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter unpacks narrative therapy's "de-centered and influential" stance. The de-centered and influential description is a response to the apparent ethical dilemma of not wanting to impose normative judgments in therapeutic conversations while simultaneously recognizing the impossibility of participating neutrally. Michael White, widely considered a founder of narrative therapy, highlights how certain practices of curiosity provide a way past this apparent philosophical dilemma. In this stance, narrative therapists take responsibility for their participation through the intentional use of questions that help deconstruct internalized stories and re-author alternative ones that clients identify as preferable. The author uses an extensive practice example to illustrate how de-centered and influential curiosity allows him to maintain his preferred narrative therapy stance.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31490-7_2
Full citation:
Gaddis, S. (2016)., Poststructural inquiry: narrative therapy's de-centered and influential stance, in V. Dickerson (ed.), Poststructural and narrative thinking in family therapy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 9-27.
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