Narrative Praxis

What is meant by narrative therapy and further narrative practice? What conceptual and methodological advancements and new developments has it experienced in recent years? How can narrative work be done in a wide variety of contexts and settings, what impulses for cross-school, advisory and therapeutic activities result from this? This comprehensive handbook provides well-founded and multifaceted information about terminology and theoretical backgrounds, but above all about the practice of narrative procedures in psychosocial and organizational work areas. Fed from 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 theoretical basic texts, present current Results of narrative research and give space to socially critical perspectives. In times of constant socio-political change, this handbook opens up a multitude of new possibilities for thinking and acting for those working in therapy, counseling and science. With contributions from: 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.