"To come across a gifted writer who is also a skilled therapist is as rare a delicacy as a skilled therapist who is also a gifted writer. To find six in one place is a feast not to be missed. Each chapter gives us a different vantage point from which to view our teaching, training and practice of therapy. Each author invites us to consider how our theory works in practice and how our practice is informed by theory. If this thought whets your appetite, then sit down, open this book and treat yourself." --Imelda McCarthy Ph.D., Director, Family and Systemic Therapies Program, Department of Social Policy and Social Work at University College, Dublin, Ireland Contents: Discourse Not Language:
The Shift from A Modernist View of Language to a Post-Structural Analysis of Discourse in family Therapy
By Stephen Madigan & Ian Law Practice Interpretations of Michel Foucault:
Situating Problem Externalising Discourse
By Stephen Madigan En-gendering Distinctions:
Postmodernism, Feminism and Narrative Therapy
By Heather Elliott Narrative and Foucault:
Implications for feminist Therapeutic Practice
By Vanessa Swan The Politics of Identity:
Locating Community Discourse in Narrative Practice
By Stephen Madigan Attention Deficit Disorders:
Therapy with a Shoddily Built Construct
By Ian Law Substance Misuse Dilemmas:
A Postmodern Inquiry
By Colin James Sanders Problem Gambling and Therapy:
Exploring alternative Metaphors to "Addiction"
By Ian Law From Beginning to Start:
The Vancouver Anti-Anorexia/Anti-Bulimia League
By Lorraine Grieves Destabilising Chronic Identities of Depression and Retirement:
Inscription, Description and Deciphering
By Stephen Madigan
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