Handbook of Narrative Psychotherapy for Children, Adults, and Families

Jan Olthof has worked as a psychotherapist since 1984. In addition to his own private practice, he also provides diverse other services. He teaches, trains and supervises young colleagues newly active in the field of systems therapy, and is registered in this capacity with the Dutch Society of Relationship and Family Therapy (NVGR). He has also been attached to the family psychiatry department of Yulius institution for mental health care in Rotterdam as a systems consultant since 1985. Jan Olthof founded the School for Systemic Training at Bunde in the Netherlands.

Ithaka , Permissions , Foreword to the English Edition , Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Prelude , Aspects of Narrative Thinking , Nomadic thought: thought on its travels , The house of language , The language of the body: the role of the body in narrative psychotherapy , Narrative space: the third space , Abduction and the logic of metaphor , Creating and structuring a therapeutic context , Developing a therapeutic framework , Narrative in Action , Finding a therapeutic script , Stories from beyond the horizon: on dissociative attacks and on stories-as-yet-untold , Birth stories: listening to children , Blended families , Fatherly love , Epilogue , Conclusion The end of the journey: from modern to postmodern to diagonal , Afterword