「假如你翻開這本書時，抱著是學習一種「新鮮」的治療「技術」的心情，我想你是很難學會這種「敘事治療」的精神的……還有，更重要的是，你是否對你自己的生命有閱讀、訴說與反思的習慣。當你面對「敘事治療」時，你要面對的不是一種可以置身事外的「工具」和「技術」；是你的生命態度，是你的生命抉擇，是你生命渴求，是你生命的故事。」 (佛瑞德門及康姆斯, 2001:8)
Narrative therapy seeks to be respectful, non-blaming approach to counseling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. (Alice, 2000:2)
Rationale\Assumptions
- Words create world.
- Narrative is conditioned by discourse but narrative is also a pivot to resist discourse.
- …it’s not possible for us to interpret our experience without access to some frame of intelligibility…stories constitute this frame of interpretation. (White 1889:13)
- The increase of discursive resource is equal to the increase of choices and alternatives of living and its expression.
- …the story or self-narrative that determines which aspects of our lived experience get expressed. (White 1889:13)
- …the story of self-narrative that determines the shape of the expression of our lived experience. (White 1889:13)
- Most of the stories, no matter good or bad, are the result of co-authoring. Thus we can change someone’s story by particular re-authoring.
- Telling and re-telling uncover those over-looked and rejected pieces of experience. The detail and the richness of our story thus can be manifested and thickened.
- Circulation of the preferred story is a powerful device to cultivate new identities.
- Story telling is a means of problem solving. (McLeod, 1997)