Narrative Praxis

What is narrative therapy and narrative practice in general? What conceptual and methodological developments and innovations has it undergone in recent years? How can narrative work be carried out in a wide variety of contexts and settings, and what impulses for cross-school, counselling and therapeutic work result from this? This comprehensive handbook provides well-founded and multifaceted information on terminology and theoretical backgrounds, but above all on the practice of narrative approaches in psychosocial and organisational fields of work. Drawing on the narrative therapy of White and Epston, the philosophy of Deleuze and Braidotti and other sources, more than 45 authors of national and international standing contribute a wide range of new creative approaches, underpin narrative understanding with basic theoretical texts, present current results of narrative research and provide space for socially critical perspectives. In times of constant socio-political change, this handbook opens up a variety of new ways of thinking and acting for those working in therapy, counselling and science. With articles by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brigitte Boothe, Maria Borcsa, Britta Boyd, Rudi Dallos, Dan Dulberger, Sol D'Urso, David Epston, Simon Forstmeier, Thomas Friedrich-Hett, Katarzyma Gdowska, Alma R. Galván-Durán, Deliana Garcia, Julia Hille, Peter Jakob, Milena Kansy, Mathias Klasen, Thomas Klatetzki, Heiko Kleve, Tobias Köllner, Tom Levold, Gabriele Lucius-Hoene, Elisabeth Christa Markert, Afiya Mangum Mbilishaka, Jan Müller, Michael Müller, Jan Olthof, Meinolf Peters, Peter Rober, Tom Rüsen, Carl Eduard Scheidt, Thomas Schollas, Jasmina Sermijn, Monica Sesma, Claudia Schiffmann, Heidrun Schulze, Sally St. George, Jürgen Straub, Arist von Schlippe, Sabine Trautmann-Voigt, Arlene Vetere, Gerhard Walter, Kaethe Weingarten, Dietmar J. Wetzel, Jim Wilson, Dan Wulff. The articles by David Epston, Jan Olthof and Peter Jakob, Dan Wulff et al, Peter Rober, Jim Wilson (How to find images for therapeutic stories with children), Rudi Dallos and Arlene Vetere, Kaethe Weingarten et al and Afiya Mangum Mbilishaka were translated from English by Astrid Hildenbrand.