Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Learning in Brief Therapy (Social Problems & Social Issues) - Hardcover

-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