Maps of Narrative Practice

Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, returns with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990.

Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new, practical, and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilising this approach in their practices.

The book covers each of the five main areas of narrative practice: re-authoring conversations, re-membering conversations, scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalising conversations, and rite of passage maps. It provides readers with an explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth, of these conversations.

The book is filled with transcripts and commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers, both well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice essential to their clinical work.