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Have You Heard the Latest Rumor About…? Solution‐Focused Therapy as a Rumor
Author(s) -
MILLER GALE,
SHAZER STEVE
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1998.00363.x
Subject(s) - rumor , solution focused brief therapy , politics , point (geometry) , ethical issues , epistemology , sociology , psychology , psychotherapist , public relations , engineering ethics , political science , law , philosophy , engineering , mathematics , geometry
This essay treats solution‐focused therapy as a rumor. Solution‐focused therapy is a series of stories that members of diverse therapist communities tell one another. Our version of this rumor stresses how solution‐focused therapy is a job involving language games, political relations, and ethical issues. We use this starting point to tell a story that links solution‐focused therapy to Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, and to aspects of postmodernist social thought. We also discuss how solution‐focused therapy is organized as a politics of possibilities.