Have You Heard the Latest Rumor About…? Solution‐Focused Therapy as a Rumor
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Family Process
- Vol. 37 (3) , 363-377
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1998.00363.x
Abstract
This essay treats solution‐focused therapy as a rumor. Solution‐focused therapy is a series of stories that members of diverse therapist communities tell one another. Our version of this rumor stresses how solution‐focused therapy is a job involving language games, political relations, and ethical issues. We use this starting point to tell a story that links solution‐focused therapy to Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, and to aspects of postmodernist social thought. We also discuss how solution‐focused therapy is organized as a politics of possibilities.Keywords
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