What is Narrative Therapy? An Easy-to-Read Introduction by Alice Morgan   This is a very popular easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical  examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation,  re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind.

 
Contents

Part One: What is narrative therapy?

    Introduction
1. Understanding and living our lives through stories
2. Stories in the therapeutic context
3. Externalising conversations: Naming the problem
4. Tracing the history of the problem
5. Exploring the effects of the problem
6. Situating the problem in context: Deconstruction
7. Discovering unique outcomes
8. Tracing the history of the meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story

Part Two - Thickening the alternative story

Introduction
9. Re-membering conversations
10. Therapeutic documentation
11. Therapeutic letters
12. Rituals and celebrations
13. Expanding the conversations
14. Outsider witness groups and definitional ceremonies
 
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