Speedy provides a necessary introduction to the purposes, possibilities and processes of narrative research methods in therapy practices. Merging social science and arts-based research methods, makes this book ideal for therapy students and practitioners, as well as those providing counselling in other related professional areas.

'This is an attractively presented, well-structured, highly creative book that addresses a cutting edge topic. It is written by a practitioner and academic well known in this particular field.' - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: Poststructuralist ideas and narrative inquiry
Reflexivities and Liminalities and the Space Between Them
Narrative Ethics
Constructing Stories in Narrative Interviews
Re-presenting Life Stories
Re-telling Stories in Reflecting Teams
Collective Biography Practices with the Unassuming Geeks
Writing Stories as 'Inquiry': Failing to come to terms with things
Creating and Performing Auto-Ethnographies
Crossing the Borders Between Fiction and Research
Epilogue: After-words
References and Bibliography
Index

JANE SPEEDY is senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, where she directs a research centre in narratives and transformative learning. She also teaches narrative and life story research. She has worked in a range of educational and voluntary organizations and continues to maintain a small narrative therapy practice.