Today it is commonplace to hear therapists speak of experiences of demoralisation, burden, fatigue and despair. This book proposes that this if significantly an outcome of how therapy is conceived of and practised, and draws out alternative conceptions and practices of therapy, supervision and training that provide a powerful antidote to despair. Readers will be provided with options for taking narrative practices into their own life - options that reinvigorate and renew. Contents: Introduction Part I: Re-membering and Definitional Ceremony Introduction The culture of the professional disciplines Re-membering Re-membering and professional lives Definitional ceremony Part II: Politics of Practice Introduction Professional discourses The therapeutic relationship Supervision as re-authoring conversation Training as co-research Part III: The Ethic of Collaboration and Decentred Practice Introduction The Ethic of Collaboration Decentred Practice |