"This book also represents issue #1 of Gecko: a journal of deconstruction and narrative ideas in therapeudic use."

Part two. Thickening the alternative story -- Re-membering conversations -- Therapeutic documentation -- Therapeutic letters -- Rituals and celebrations -- Expanding the conversation -- Outsider-witness groups and definitional ceremonies. Part one. What is narrative therapy? -- Understanding and living our lives through stories -- Stories in the therapeutic context -- Externalising conversations: naming the problem -- Tracing the history of the problem -- Exploring the effects of the problem -- Situating the problem in context: deconstruction -- Discovering unique outcomes -- Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story.