David Epston - Psykolog - Narrative Perspektiver

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David Epston

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David is the co-director of The Family Therapy Centre and affiliate faculty, North Dakota State University. Along with Michael White, he co-originated what has come to be known as ‘narrative therapy and community work’. His best known publications are White and Epston(1990), Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends; Freeman, Epston and Lobovits(1997), Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families and Maisel, Epston and Borden(2004), Biting The Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia, Marsten, Epston and Markham(2016), Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children’s Imaginative Know-how, and NiaNia, Bush and Epston(2017), Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Taitaohono: Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry along with other collections of papers and book chapters.

He is also the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY(RENAMED JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE THERAPY) www.journalnft.com

Epston started working as a senior social worker in an Auckland hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as consultant family therapist at the Leslie Centre, run by Presbyterian Support Services in Auckland. From 1987 to the present he has been co-director of The Family Therapy Centre in Auckland.^[1]

In the late 1970s Epston and Michael White led the flowering of family therapy within Australia and New Zealand.^[1] Together they started developing their ideas, continuing during the 1980s, and eventually in 1990 published Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, the first major text in what came to be known as narrative therapy. In 1997 following the publication of Playful Approaches to Serious Problems Epston, along with his co-authors Dean Lobovits and Jennifer Freeman, initiated the website Narrative Approaches.^[2] It includes series of authored and co-authored papers, artwork, and poetry in the form of an “Archive of Resistance: Anti-Anorexia/anti-Bulimia.”

Publications

1989. Literate Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications.
1990. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. W.W. Norton.
1992. Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989-1991. With Michael White. Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
1997. Playful approaches to serious problems: narrative therapy with children and their families. With Jennifer Freeman and Dean Lobovits. W.W. Norton.
2004. Biting the hand that starves you: inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia. With Richard Linn Maisel and Ali Borden. W.W. Norton.
2008. Down under and up over: travels with narrative therapy. Edited by Barry Bowen. Karnac Books. ISBN 978-0-952343