Narrative Therapy

Catrina Brown, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax,  cross-appointed to Women’s Studies and Nursing. She is  also a feminist psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on eating “disorders”.  She is the co-editor of Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Eating Disorders and Weight Preoccupation. She conducts research in the area of women, eating “disorders”, body image, trauma and sexual abuse, depression, and alcohol use problems. Tod Augusta-Scott, M.S.W. is the program coordinator at Bridges - a domestic violence counselling, research, and training institute in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has taught at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax.  He works as a consultant on issues of domestic violence for both government and non-government organizations. He is currently an editor for the Canadian Journal of Social Work. He publishes and presents his work internationally.  His practice focuses primarily on issues of violence, sexual abuse, sexism, racism, and homophobia.

"This book addresses so many of my unsettled questions at the narrative/ postmodern crossroads. The book is like an outstretched hand that arrived to take me from the edge of my thinking and invite me to venture a few steps further toward clarity and complexity. I found the book overall to be a mind-stretching invitation to turn up the volume on our reflexivity. It read like narrative theory to the second power (narrative X narrative) which offers expanded opportunities to be curious, multi-storied, and reflective — but also political and deconstructive."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postmodernism, Reflexivity, and Narrative Therapy - Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-ScottPART I: WRITING IN THE SOCIALCh 1. Situating Knowledge and Power in the Therapeutic Alliance - Catrina BrownCh 2. Re-storying Women′s Depression: A Material-Discursive Approach - Michelle N. Lafrance, Janet M. StoppardCh 3. The Blinding Power of Genetics: Manufacturing and Privatizing Stories of Eating Disorders - Karin JasperCh 4. Poetics of Resistance: Compassionate Practice in Substance Misuse Therapy - Colin James SandersCh 5. Practicing Psychiatry Through a Narrative Lens: Working With Children, Youth, and Families - Normand CarreyPART II: SELF-SURVEILLANCE: NORMALIZING PRACTICES OF SELFCh 6. Discipline and Desire: Regulating the Body/Self - Catrina BrownCh 7. Watching the Other Watch: A Social Location of Problems - Stephen MadiganCh 8. Internalized Homophobia: Lessons From the Mobius Strip - Glenda M. RussellPART III: CHALLENGING ESSENTIALISMCh 9. Dethroning the Suppressed Voice: Unpacking Experience as Story - Catrina BrownCh 10.Conversations With Men About Women′s Violence: Ending Men′s Violence by Challenging Gender Essentialism - Tod Augusta-ScottCh 11. Challenging Essentialist Anti-Oppressive Discourse: Uniting Against Racism and Sexism - Tod Augusta-ScottPART IV: RE-AUTHORING PREFERRED IDENTITIESCh 12. Movement of Identities: A Map for Therapeutic Conversations About Trauma - Jim Duvall, Laura BeresCh 13. Letters From Prison: Re-authoring Identity With Men Who Have Perpetrated Sexual Violence - Tod Augusta-ScottCh 14: Talking Body Talk: Blending Narrative and Feminist Approaches to Therapy - Catrina BrownAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors