Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy

ISBN-13: 9781032188898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 120 str.

Dale (Australia) Johns

Opis

This book demonstrates an innovative approach to using narrative therapy in counselling people who have been subject to childhood sexual abuse. It presents an illustrative case of the authors, Tim the therapist in consultation with Dale the client, who was sexually abused as a child by a clergy member.

Recenzje

I commend Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy for its originality, its generosity of spirit and its co-authorship. In addition, it takes up shame as a major concern, offering remedial strategies to render it ineffectual. But perhaps most significantly is that Tim, the counsellor and Dale, the survivor, who as they put it, 'walked alongside' one another do so once again in the most engaging and inspiring fashion in co-authoring this book.

David Epston, originator of Narrative Therapy with Michael White, BA, Dist.Dip.Comm.Dev., MA (Applied Social Studies), CQSW(UK), NZAC, D.Litt (honoris causa)

What a treasure of a book! For those wanting to know more about the practice of Narrative Therapy with survivors of child sexual abuse, how to walk collaboratively alongside those who have been subjected to sexual violence and to turn taken-for-granted understandings of shame into expressions of values held dear, Tim's and co-author, Dale's book, Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy provides this and more. Its sensitivity, authenticity and clarity are to be commended.

Sue Davidson, B. Soc. Sc., M. Soc. Sc. (Counselling), Advanced Cert. in Narrative Therapy (Dulwich Centre, Adelaide)

Spis treści

1. Paying reverence to the stories we hear 2. Ethics of care and understanding practices of self 3. Revealing and grasping the coat of shame 4. The politics of men’s pain – informing our ‘walking alongside’ each other 5. Deconstructing negative identity conclusions 6. Exposing the coat of shame and fighting to claim what is already yours 7. Positioning yourself in ways that acknowledge strength in what you stand for 8. Wrestling through shame and sharing stories of resistance 9. Discerning shame and speaking the truth with integrity – Dale’s Tree of Life 10. Dale’s re-claiming of integrity – ‘sharing a glimpse of my story with explicit detail’ 11. The joining of stories as a political act 12. Making visible the signs of social and psychological resistance 13. Dale moving out into the world with confidence in knowing the truth and having a deeper understanding shame 14. Connecting it all together - linking neurobiology, the body and narrative practice with Dale’s emotions, through story telling