In the Therapist's Mirror: Reality in the Making

by Marilyn Wedge

Overview

Wedge's central argument, presented clearly and illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience, even the experience of one's own self, is a construction of signs. Symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual, and drama create and shape our realities and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393702354
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1996
Series:	Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Marilyn Wedge is a family therapist in private practice for thirty years. She has a PhD from the University of Chicago and writes blogs for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She lives in Oak Park, California.

Editorial Reviews

Family therapist Wedge integrates the problem-solving focus of strategic family therapy with narrative therapy's emphasis on stories and the cultural context of meaning. She draws on case studies to argue that all experience, even of oneself, is a construction of signs, and to illustrate how created symbols can be a place where the therapist and client meet. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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