Multiple Voices: Contributions to Systemic Family Psychotherapy

260 Pages·14.242 MB·English

by  Papadopoulos, Renos (ed.)

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overview of issues related to
narrative which appear in a family
therapy setting. Originally Tile Ta dale]
on a joint project to share clinical
experience, members of the Family
Systems Group at the Tavistock Clinic
discovered that what was common in
their work was their emphasis on
narrative. This discovery led in time
to the development of a shared
discourse about their diverse
approaches to narrative which are
carefully reflected in the contributions
in this volume. Part One sets out the
context of narrative with contribu-
tions on bilingualism and the family's
experience of therapy, ending with
a thought-provoking agate lU(-Me)j
narrative. Part Two concentrates on
applications of these ideas, providing
analysis of multiple narratives in
illness and loss, gender and
language, neonatal care, adoption,
divorce and refugee families.
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Multiple Voices
Narrative in Systemic Family
Psychotherapy
Renos K. Papadopoulos
John Byng-Hall
Editors
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First published in 1997 by
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Selection and introduction © 1997 by
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personal copyright is retained by all contributors
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Contents
Preface
Nick Temple and Margot Waddell
_ Acknowledgements
Foreword
Rosemary Whiffen
Contributors
Introduction
Renos K. Papadopoulos and John Byng-Hall
Part One
Narrative: Construing the Context
1. The Other Side of the Story: The Client’s Experience of
Therapy
David Campbell 15
2. What Narrative?
Sebastian Kraemer 41
3. Language and Narrative: Learning from Bilingualism
Charlotte Burck 64
4. Postmodern Narratives: or Muddles in the Mind
Stephen Frosh 86
Part Two
Narrative: Applications
5. Toward a Coherent Story about Illness and Loss
John Byng-Hall 103
6. Different Language/Different Gender: Narratives of
Inclusion and Exclusion
Barbara Dale and Jenny Altschuler 125
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Multiple Voices
7. Making Sense of the Experience of Neonatal Intensive
Care
Anne McFadyen
146
8. New Stories for Old? The Creation of New Families by
Adoption and Fostering
Caroline Lindsey
169
9. Rewriting the Story: Children, Parents and Post-Divorce
Narratives
Gill Gorrel Barnes and Emilia Dowling
184
10. Is Home where the Heart is? Narratives of Oppositional
Discourses in Refugee Families !
Renos K. Papadopoulos and Judy Hildebrand 206
Index
237
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Preface
Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide
range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community mental health
which have always been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis. In the
last thirty years it has also developed systemic family therapy as a new
theoretical model and clinical approach. The Clinic has become the
largest training institution in Britain for work of this kind, providing
post-graduate and qualifying courses in social work, psychology, psy-
chiatry, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy and, latterly, in
nursing. It trains about 1200 students each year in over 45 courses.
The Clinic’s philosophy has been one of influencing mental health
work toward therapeutic and humane methods and has, as an aim, the
dissemination of training, clinical expertise and research throughout
Britain and the rest of the world. This major new book series is designed
to make available the extensive experience that the work of the Clinic
represents, covering all its departments, specialist workshops and re-
search seminars. The series seeks to be accessible to a wide audience by
presenting new approaches and developments in a clear, readable style
and at reasonable prices. It will enable the Clinic to describe many
aspects both of its established clinical work and of current growing
points and innovations in the practice, theory and research of experts.
In this book members of the Systems Group of the Tavistock Clinic
address various aspects of the narrative approach to psychotherapy. The
recent increased interest in this perspective to psychotherapy has cre-
ated a rather confused field with different meanings, definitions and
directions. This book offers a coherent approach based on clinical
research and therapeutic work; the chapters address theoretical issues
and clinical applications to a variety of contexts, including narratives in
families with physical illness, fostering and adoption, divorce, bilingual-
ism and refugees. The editors are Renos K. Papadopoulos and John
Byng-Hall.
Nicholas Temple and Margot Waddell
Series Editors
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Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge and express Our appreciation for the
permissions given to reproduce previously published material in this
book, specifically to:
Susan Sontag for a quote from her book Illness as Metaphor (1991) as
well as to Penguin UK and Wylie Agency.
John Berger for quoting his poem “Migrant Words’ in Pages of the
Wound (1996) as well as to Bloomsbury Publishing.
Italo Calvino for excerpts from If on a Winter’s Night Traveller (1981)
as well as to Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, and Reed Consumer Books.
Bowina Welham at Routledge for permissions to reproduce extracts
from Special Care Babies and Their Developing Relationships (1994).
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