Narrative Therapy
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Michael Schreiner | January 29, 2015
Eradicating The Racist Mind And Retaining Personal Freedom
Psychologically speaking, conversations and ideas meant to eradicate the racist mindset are problematic because the attitude of wanting...
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Michael Schreiner | January 26, 2015
Make Your Voice Heard
We usually think of the silencing of minority rights and opinions as perpetrated by the cultural majority, but...
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Michael Schreiner | January 22, 2015
Put Setbacks In Perspective
Changing customary patterns of behavior is hard. We feel that pull, almost like being inexorably drawn towards a...
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Michael Schreiner | January 21, 2015
Unique Outcomes
In narrative therapy unique outcomes are the overlooked instances that contradict the unwanted, problem saturated dominant narrative. Unique...
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Michael Schreiner | January 19, 2015
Externalizing Conversations
The central concept behind externalizing conversations in narrative therapy is that “you are not the problem, the problem...
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Michael Schreiner | January 16, 2015
Behavioral Psychology And Identity
From the behavioral point of view there is no such thing as a unitary identity, there are only...
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Michael Schreiner | August 19, 2014
Give Your Anxiety A Personality
Narrative therapy separates the problem from the person in order to get some perspective, viewing the problem objectively...
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Michael Schreiner | August 1, 2014
Care With Labels
The fact that these days people receive a diagnostic label they must carry around for the rest of...
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Michael Schreiner | May 23, 2014
Intoxication and Withdrawal
The genius of the narrative paradigm is that by making problems separate from you for a time, creating...
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Michael Schreiner | May 14, 2014
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
We tend to paint people who abuse as the villains of the story, and this has to do...