So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy?

So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice.

Sanni Paljakka is a registered psychologist and codirector of the Calgary Narrative Collective, where she also serves as the director of clinical training where she supervises practicum students. Tom Stone Carlson, PhD, is a professor at Alliant International University in the Couple and Family Therapy Program.

Letter 1. What's So Narrative About Narrative Therapy?: A Letter About Stories and Story-Work Letter 2. What's Riding Us?: A Letter About the Master's Narratives Letter 3. What's Problematic About Calling It a Problem?: A Letter About Dilemmas Letter 4. When Externalizing Internalizes: A Letter About Narrative Diagnoses Letter 5. Why Are You in Therapy?: A Letter About Up Against Stories Letter 6. Whose Story Is It?: A Letter About the Agentive Turn Letter 7. What Do You Want to Do, Love?: A Letter About Counterstories Letter 8. What if We Aren't Angels?: A Letter About Interesting Protagonists Letter 9. What is Beautiful and What is Ugly?: A Letter About Moral Reading Prompts Letter 10. What Now?: A Letter About Writing as an Antidote to Despair Epilogue: Dear Student