Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference provides indepth accounts of the everyday practice of postmodern collaborative therapy, vibrantly illustrating how dialogic conversation can transform lives, relationships, and entire communities. About the Editors vii Contributors ix Preface: HARLENE ANDERSON AND DIANE GEHART xvii PART 1 An Invitation to Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference 1(94) Collaborative Therapy Then and Now 1(62) 1 A Postmodern Umbrella: Language and Knowledge as Relational and Generative, and Inherently Transforming 7(14) HARLENE ANDERSON 2 Historical Influences 21(12) HARLENE ANDERSON 3 Dialogue: People Creating Meaning with Each Other and Finding Ways to Go On 33(10) HARLENE ANDERSON 4 The Heart and Spirit of Collaborative Therapy: The Philosophical Stance "A Way of Being" in Relationship and Conversation 43(20) HARLENE ANDERSON Other Voices: Netting and Expressing 5 The Art of "Withness": A New Bright Edge 63(18) LYNN HOFFMAN 6 Human Participating: Human "Being" Is the Step for Human "Becoming" in the Next Step 81(18) TOM ANDERSEN PART 2 The Therapy Room 95(102) 7 Listening Voices 99(10) PEGGY PENN 8 Hearing the Unheard: Advice to Professionals from Women Who Have Been Battered 109(20) SUSAN B. LEVIN 9 You Make the Path as You Walk: Working Collaboratively with People with Eating Disorders 129(20) ELENA FERN NDEZ, ALEJANDRA CORT , AND MARGARITA TARRAGONA 10 Honoring Elders through Conversations about Their Lives 149(18) JENNIFER ANDREWS 11 Collaborating with Parents and Children in Private Practice: Shifting and Overlapping Conversations 167(16) MARSHA MCDONOUGH AND PATRICIA KOCH 12 Creating Space for Children's Voices: A Collaborative and Playful Approach to Working with Children and Families 183(14) DIANE GEHART PART 3 Beyond the Therapy Room 197(224) In Social and Institutional Settings 13 Trialogues: A Means to Answerability and Dialogue in a Prison Setting 203(18) JUDIT WAGNER 14 Open Dialogue: An Approach to Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis in Northern Finland 221(14) KAUKO HAARAKANGAS, JAAKKO SEIKKULA, BIRGITTA ALAKARE, AND JUKKA AALTONEN 15 The Development of a Collaborative Learning and Therapy Community in an Educational Setting: From Alienation to Invitation 235(16) SYLVIA LONDON AND IRMA RODRIGUEZ-JAZCILEVICH 16 Collaborative Therapy and Supervision in a Psychiatric Hospital 251(18) SYLVIA LONDON AND MARGARITA TARRAGONA 17 Women at a Turning Point: A Transformational Feast 269(22) DEBBIE FEINSILVER, EILEEN MURPHY, AND HARLENE ANDERSON 18 Dialogues in a Psychiatric Service in Cuba 291(22) KLAUS G. DEISSLER In Education, Supervision, and Research 19 Relational Practices in Education: Teaching as Conversation 313(24) SHEILA MCNAMEE 20 From the Theory to the Practice of Inquiring Collaboratively: An Exercise in and Clinical Example of an Interviewee-Guided Interview 337(14) SALLYANN ROTH 21 Curious George: Interview with a Supervisor 351(16) GLEN GARDNER AND ANTHONY NEUGEBAUER 22 A Collaborative Approach to Research and Inquiry 367(24) DIANE GEHART, MARGARITA TARRAGONA, AND SALIHA BAVA Never-Ending Possibilities 23 Collaboration without End: The Case of the Positive Aging Newsletter 391(12) MARY GERGEN AND KENNETH J. GERGEN 24 Collaborating as a Lifestyle 403(18) SALLY ST. GEORGE AND DAN WULFF Index 421