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Re-imagining Therapy : Living title: Conversations and Relational Knowing author: Riikonen, Eero.; Smith, Gregory Madan. publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. isbn10 | asin: 0803976534 print isbn13: 9780803976535 ebook isbn13: 9780585363004 language: English Psychotherapy, Psycholinguistics-- subject Therapeutic use. publication date: 1997 lcc: RC475.R55 1997eb ddc: 616.8914 Psychotherapy, Psycholinguistics-- subject: Therapeutic use. Page i Re-Imagining Therapy Page ii INQUIRIES IN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION Series editors Kenneth J. Gergen and John Shotter Inquiries in Social Construction is designed to facilitate across disciplinary and national boundaries, a revolutionary dialogue within the social sciences and humanities. Central to this dialogue is the idea that all presumptions of the real and the good are constructed within relations among people. This dialogue gives voice to a new range of topics, including the social construction of the person, rhetoric and narrative in the construction of reality, the role of power in making meanings, postmodernist culture and thought, discursive practices, the social constitution of the mental, dialogic process, reflexivity in theory and method, and many more. The series explores the problems and prospects generated by this new relational consciousness, and its implications for science and social life. Also in this series Discursive Psychology Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter Therapy as Social Construction edited by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J. Gergen Psychology and Postmodernism edited by Steinar Kvale Constructing the Social edited by Theodore R. Sarbin and John I. Kitsuse Conversational Realities John Shotter Power/Gender edited by H. Lorraine Radtke and Henderikus J. Stam After Postmodernism edited by Herbert W. Simons and Michael Billig The Social Self edited by David Bakhurst and Christine Sypnowich Page iii Re-Imagining Therapy Living Conversations and Relational Knowing Eero Riikonen and Gregory Madan Smith Page iv © Eero Riikonen and Gregory Madan Smith 1997 First published 1997 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. 'Notation', 'Official Letter', 'Awkward', 'Haiku' and 'Portrait' from Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, published by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd are reprinted by kind permission of the author, The Calder Educational Trust, London, and New Directions Publishing Corp., New York. Copyright © this translation Barbara Wright 1958, 1979. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0 8039 7653 4 ISBN 0 8039 7654 2 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog record available Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford, Surrey Page v Contents Foreword vii Kenneth J. Gergen and Sheila McNamee Preface xi 1 1 Orientations Orientation 1: The Gifts of Words 1 Orientation 2: Providential Dialogues 1 Orientation 3: On Behalf of the Words of the Book 8 More Motives for Writing Somewhat Strangely 9 Contexts for Re-Imagining Therapy 13 2 18 Towards Discursive and Human Metaphors of Therapy Shiny Metal Balls 18 Words and Conversations as Action 18 Metaphors of Therapy: 1st Café 19 The Deep Superficiality of Blocks: 2nd Café 22 Towards More Human Metaphors of Therapy 23 Politics in Dialogue 25 3 31 Metaphors of Words and Talk Fresh Metaphors and Half-Metaphors 31 Exercises in Style, à la Queneau 33 Talk as Webs and Jumps 37 Talk as Possibilities 41 Authoritarian Talk, Imaginative Talk 52 Page vi 4 65 Processes of Re-Enchantment Social Poetics 65 Contexts of the Sacred 72 5 87 Metaphors of Therapy and Good Interaction Interacting Well 87 Contemplative Moments 94 Inspiring Topics 97 Relational Knowing 102 Providential Listening 106 Finding Providential Metaphors 112 Using Moral Imagination 116 E-motion 125 6 145 Living Conversations Savo Style 145 Seeking Shared Signs of Promise 145 Fine Shoes: A Client Session 148 After the Session 158 7 166 Attempts at Closure
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