Harlene Anderson: BOOKS

Conversation, Language and Possibilities:
A Postmodern Approach to Therapy

Through an illuminating blend of theory and clinical narratives this engaging and essential exposition of a collaborative approach to therapy addresses the important question, " How can therapists and clients create relationships and conversations that allow both parties to access possibilities where none seemed to exist before." It emphasizes therapist and client engaging in collaborative relationships and generative conversations to form conversational partnerships toward powerful transformations in people’s lives and toward successful futures.

Available in English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish and Swedish

Anderson, H. (1997) Conversation, Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy. New York: Basic Books. www.Amazon.com, www.perseusbooksgroup.com, www.behavioralsciencebookservice.com.		Anderson, H. (1999) Das Therapeutische Gesprach: Der Gleichberechtigte Dialog als Perspektive der Veranderung . Translated by Georgia Hanenberg. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. www.Klett-Cotta.de/suche_be
Anderson, H. (1999) Samtal, Sprak and Majligheter: Psykoterapi och Konsultation ur Postmodern Synvinkel. Translated by Kerstin Hopstadius & Cecilia Brodin. Stockholm: Mareld. Mareld@algonet.se		Anderson, H. (2000) Conversacion, lenguaje y posibilidades: Un enfoque Posmoderno del al Terapia. Buenos Aires: Amorrortu/editores. Info@amorrortueditores.com

What others have said about
Conversation, Language and Possibilities

"Anderson is considered by many to be a leading thinker in the development of postmodern approaches to systemic practice...Her book is thoughtful and scholarly...refreshing and optimistic."

Arlene Vetere, Ph.D.
UK Association for Family Therapy

"A sumptuous blending of theory and practice, abounding insight, beauty, and drama; and all with Anderson's characteristic clarity and caring for the reader. This volume sets the standard for linking social constructionist thought to professional practice."

Kenneth Gergen, Ph.D.
Mustin Professor Psychology,
Swarthmore College

"…Harlene’s book has profoundly influenced my life or my way of thinking or looking at life…it brought together a lot of disparate strands of thinking into one coherent whole, and, even more important, gave me the courage to conduct my professional life in the way I had always thought I should, but had neither the vocabulary nor the guts to do so…It makes postmodernism not just a trendy phrase one uses in order to sound avant garde and "with it", but a real living guide to life…If as many people bought this book as borrowed it, it would have been an NYT best seller."

"Together, the book and videotape (Good Mother, Bad Mother") provide unique entrée into this robustly relational, insistently egalitarian, gently iconoclastic, and truly transformative approach for anyone who doubts the transformative power of this receptive approach, Anderson’s eloquent and thoughtful book will itself be transformative …"

Behavioral Science Book Service

Reviews of Conversation, Language and Possibilities

Australian New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
2000, Vol. 21, No. 3, 170-171.

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy of Marital and Family Therapy
1998, Vol. 24, No. 1, 135-139.

Journal of Family Psychotherapy
1998, Vol. 9, No. 4, 77-78.

Journal of Systemic Therapies
1999, Vol. 18, No. 3, 94-95.

Psychologie in Osterreich
5/97

Sistemas Familiares

Tokdscjroft voor Psychotherapievoor Psychotherapie
1999.

Voices
Fall 1997

If you have questions or would like to talk with me, email: harleneanderson@earthlink.net