Becoming Miracle Workers - (Social Problems & Social Issues) by Gale Miller (Paperback)

About the Book

Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories)

Book Synopsis

Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories)

Review Quotes

-Miller has really written two books: one is a polemical defense of postmodernism; the other is a set of techniques and approaches used in a facility that specializes in short-term interventions with troubled people... [T]his book would be a useful library addition and is easily accessible to undergraduate students. General readers; undergraduates through graduates.-

--M. W. York, Choice

-Miller's clear and well-written descriptions provide clinicians with a AEbehind-the-mirror' view of social constructionism in action.-

--Journal of Systemic Therapies

-Gale Miller does a fine job of examining how and why brief therapy works, based uon his many years of observation of -Northland Clinic-. . . . This book is packed full of theoretically and epistemological questions about the therapy itself and about the construction of knowledge.-

--Anne Figert, Contemporary Sociology

"Miller has really written two books: one is a polemical defense of postmodernism; the other is a set of techniques and approaches used in a facility that specializes in short-term interventions with troubled people... [T]his book would be a useful library addition and is easily accessible to undergraduate students. General readers; undergraduates through graduates."

--M. W. York, Choice

"Miller's clear and well-written descriptions provide clinicians with a AEbehind-the-mirror' view of social constructionism in action."

--Journal of Systemic Therapies

"Gale Miller does a fine job of examining how and why brief therapy works, based uon his many years of observation of "Northland Clinic." . . . This book is packed full of theoretically and epistemological questions about the therapy itself and about the construction of knowledge."

--Anne Figert, Contemporary Sociology

"Miller has really written two books: one is a polemical defense of postmodernism; the other is a set of techniques and approaches used in a facility that specializes in short-term interventions with troubled people... [T]his book would be a useful library addition and is easily accessible to undergraduate students. General readers; undergraduates through graduates."

--M. W. York, Choice

"Miller's clear and well-written descriptions provide clinicians with a AEbehind-the-mirror' view of social constructionism in action."

"--Journal of Systemic Therapies"

"Gale Miller does a fine job of examining how and why brief therapy works, based uon his many years of observation of "Northland Clinic." . . . This book is packed full of theoretically and epistemological questions about the therapy itself and about the construction of knowledge."

--Anne Figert, Contemporary Sociology