Collaborative Therapy

Harlene Anderson, Ph.D., is Co-founder of the Houston Galveston Institute in Houston, Texas, and Co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Taos Institute in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She is the author of Conversations, Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy. Diane R. Gehart, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at California State University, Northridge, and has a private practice in Thousand Oaks, California. She is the co-author of Theory-Based Treatment Planning for Marriage and Family Therapists: Integrating Theory and Practice.

Anderson, Gehart, Preface. Part I: An Invitation to Collaborative Therapy and Beyond. Collaborative Therapy Then and Now. Anderson, A Postmodern Umbrella: Language and Knowledge as Relational and Generative and Inherently Transforming. Anderson, Historical Influences. Anderson, Dialogue: People Creating Meaning "With" Each Other and Finding Ways to Go On. Anderson, Hallmark of Collaborative Therapy: The Philosophical Stance as a "Way of Being". Other Voices: Netting and Expressing. Hoffman, The Art of "Withness": A Bright Idea. Andersen, Human Participating: Human "Being" is the Step for Human "Becoming" in the Next Step. Part II: The Therapy Room. Penn, Listening Voices. Levin, Hearing the Unheard: Advice to Professionals from Women Who Have Been Battered. Fernández, Cortés, Tarragona, You Make the Path as You Walk: Working Collaboratively with People with Eating Disorders. Andrews, Conversations that Reconnect Elders to their Lives. McDonough, Koch, Collaborating with Parents and Children in Private Practice: Shifting and Overlapping Conversations. Gehart, Creating Space for Children’s Voices: A Collaborative Approach to Child and Family Play. Schnitman, Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity. Part III: Beyond the Therapy Room. In Social and Institutional Settings. Wagner, Trialogues: A Means to Answerability and Dialogue in a Prison Setting. Haarakangas, Alakare, Aaltonen, Seikkula, Open Dialogue: An Approach to Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis in Northern Finland. London, Rodriguez-Jazcilevich, The Development of a Collaborative Learning and Therapy Community in an Educational Setting: From Alienation to Invitation. London, Tarragona, Collaborative Therapy and Supervision in a Psychiatric Hospital. Feinsilver, Murphy, Anderson, Women at a Turning Point: A Transformation Feast. Deissler, Dialogues in a Psychiatric Service in Cuba. In Supervision, Education, and Research. McNamee, Relational Practices in Education: Teaching as Conversation. Roth, From the Theory to the Practice of Inquiring Collaboratively: An Exercise in and Clinical Example of an Interviewee-guided Interview. Gardner,Neugebauer, Curious George: Interviews with a Supervisor. Gehart, Tarragona, Bava, A Collaborative Approach to Research and Inquiry. Never-ending Possibilities. M. M. Gergen, K. J. Gergen, Collaboration Without End: The Case of the Positive Aging Newsletter. St. George, Wulff, Collaborating as a Life Style. Index.