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David Epston.
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David Epston is the co-creator of Narrative Therapy – a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to family therapy, counseling, and community work that centers people as the experts of their own lives and identities. The intellectual partnership between David Epston and Michael White initiated in 1980 founded a narrative family therapy framework infused with a spirit of adventure and invention based on a shared political philosophy. Narrative Therapy views problems as separate from people and engages people in re-authoring the stories of their lives by developing counter storylines that revive and vivify hopeful, preferred ways of living and being in relationships. David has disseminated this approach for 30 years through his teaching and lively collaborations with partners in 19 countries and has authored or co-authored ten books that have been translated into many languages.
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David Epston was born in 1944 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. At...
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Epston, D. (2008). In B. Bowen (Ed.), Down under and up over: Travels with narrative therapy. London: Karnac Books.
Epston, D. (2016). Re-imagining narrative therapy: A history for the future. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 35(1), 79–87.
Epston, D., Maisel, R., & Borden, A. (2004). Biting the hand that starves you: Inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia. New York: Norton.
Epston, D., Marsten, D., & Markham, L. (2016). Narrative therapy in wonderland: Connecting with Children’s imaginative know-how. New York: Norton.
Freeman, J., Epston, D., & Lobovits, D. (1997). Playful approaches to serious problems: Narrative therapy with children and their families. New York: Norton.
Niania, W., Bush, A., & Epston, D. (2017). Collaborative and indigenous mental health therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Maori healing and psychiatry. New York: Routledge.
White, M., & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York: Norton.
White, M., & Epston, D. (1992). Experience, contradiction, narrative and imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989–1991. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications.
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Sax, P., Ingamells, K., Lobovits, D., Pilkington, S.M. (2019). Epston, David. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1043
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