'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions. The central metaphor is the performance of practice emphasized in the spoken word and expressed in all its non-verbal complexity. How we, as practitioners, use every aspect of our being to communicate with the other in practice, how we shape and mould our words through gesture and other non-verbal actions in response to the gestures and words of others in a continually recursive process. Therapy is an enactment, a performance that is created between all the participants.'- Jim Wilson, from the Preface
ContentsIntroduction Theory, practice and the self of the therapist; three dimensions in the repertoire of therapy1 Pride and prejudice in family therapy theories2 The emergence of systemic focused drama: creating a sense of occasion3 Situating systemic focused drama4 Systemic focused drama: modes and applications5 Stories and their performance6 The therapist and the performance of practice7 Scales for reflection in the performance of practice8 As the curtain falls...
