- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Co (1 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0202305708
- ISBN-13: 978-0202305707
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,468,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Miller has really written two books: one is a polemical defense of postmodernism; the other is a set of techniques and approaches used in a facility that specializes in short-term interventions with troubled people... [T]his book would be a useful library addition and is easily accessible to undergraduate students. General readers; undergraduates through graduates."
--M. W. York, Choice
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Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories). The significant differences discussed in this book do not involve sociologists and brief therapists. The differences are between brief therapists, on the one hand, and practitioners of psychotherapy and family therapy on the other. One indicator of these is brief therapists' describing the people who seek their services as "clients." The terminology may be contrasted with the language of "patients" used by many other therapists. At the very least, this difference suggests how brief therapy departs from therapy approaches that are based on the medical model. Becoming Miracle Workers takes the reader inside "Northland Clinic," one of the most innovative and important centers of brief therapy in the world. Based on twelve years of research, Miller's book discusses how brief therapy has evolved into its present, postmodern form. He describes the details of brief therapist-client interactions, and the behind-the-scenes discussions among brief therapists about their clients' problems. This readable account of the workings of brief therapy invites readers to sit in on brief therapy sessions, provides them with new understandings of personal troubles as social constructions, and shows how brief therapists help their clients develop new, untroubled, life stories. "Miller's clear and well-written descriptions provide clinicians with a aebehind-the-mirror' view of social constructionism in action."--"Journal of Systemic Therapies" "Gale Miller" is professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. He has published over twenty books and numerous journal articles. Much of his research has focused on social problems theory and how social policies are implemented within contemporary human service institutions.
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An intersting book
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This book presents some new concepts or at least presents concepts in a different manner. It is challenging me to change my perceptions and presumptions about some problems and how to deal with them in a clinical situation. I am enjoying this book and the dialog I am creating with fellow clinicians about it. i definitely recommend it.
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