Narrative Inquiry and Psychotherapy

JANE SPEEDY is senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, where she directs a research centre in narratives and transformative learning. She also teaches narrative and life story research. She has worked in a range of educational and voluntary organizations and continues to maintain a small narrative therapy practice.

'This is an attractively presented, well-structured, highly creative book that addresses a cutting edge topic. It is written by a practitioner and academic well known in this particular field.' - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today

• AcknowledgementsPrologueIntroduction: Poststructuralist ideas and narrative inquiryReflexivities and Liminalities and the Space Between ThemNarrative EthicsConstructing Stories in Narrative InterviewsRe-presenting Life StoriesRe-telling Stories in Reflecting TeamsCollective Biography Practices with the Unassuming GeeksWriting Stories as 'Inquiry': Failing to come to terms with thingsCreating and Performing Auto-EthnographiesCrossing the Borders Between Fiction and ResearchEpilogue: After-wordsReferences and BibliographyIndex.