"An intriguing and dramatic conversation that engages readers as partners and participants in an experience similar to the experience of clients in narrative therapy . . . . This book offers a new and different way of involving clients and therapists in unmasking the influence of larger cultural narratives that constrict their choices."
-- Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
"If narrative therapy is akin to a language of its own, then, undoubtedly, the best way to approach a new language is though immersion in it. Zimmerman and Dickerson, in this audacious book, allow the reader to live in such a narrative 'world,' one in which the problem speaks and the authors, clients, and students have the temerity to speak back. This book calls for a very different kind of reading than do conventional texts. Reader, should you be willing to do so, you will have had a veritable experience of the narrative metaphor in practice."
--David Epston
Articles and Book Chapters
Dickerson, V.
C. (2011). Insider knowledge. Family
Process, 50
Dickerson, V. C. (2010). Positioning oneself
within an epistemology: Refining our thinking about integrative approaches.
Family Process, 49, 349-368.
Dickerson, V. C. (2009). Introduction to the special section--continuing narrative ideas and practices: Drawing inspiration from the legacy of Michael White. Family Process, 48: 315-318.
Dickerson, V. C. & Crocket, K. (2010). El Tigre, El Tigre: A story of narrative practice. In A. Gurman (Ed.), Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy (pp.
153-180). New York: Guilford Press.
Dickerson, V. C. (2006). Remembering the Future: Situating
Oneself in a Constantly Evolving Field. Journal of Systemic Therapies.
Dickerson, V.C. (2004). Allies Against Self-Doubt. Brief Therapy. Dickerson, V. C. (2004). Young Women Struggling for an Identity. Family Process, 43: 337-348. Dickerson, V. C. (2001). 5 ways to use the Internet in Your Practice. Psychotherapy Networker, 25 (2): 34-36. Dickerson, V. C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1996). Myths, misconceptions,
and a word or two about politics (Special edition on narrative, J.
L. Zimmerman & V. C. Dickerson, Eds.). Journal of Systemic
Therapies. Dickerson, V. C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1995). A constructionist
exercise in anti-pathologizing. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 14:
33-45. Dickerson, V. C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1993). A narrative approach to families with adolescents, (pp. 226-250). In S. Friedman (Ed.), The new language of change: Constructive collaboration in psychotherapy. New York: Guilford. Dickerson, V. C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1992). Families with
adolescents: Escaping problem lifestyles. Family Process, 31:
351-363. Dickerson, V. C., Zimmerman, J. L., & Berndt, L. (1994). Challenging developmental “truths”: Separating from separation. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, 4: 2-12.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1993a). Bringing forth the restraining influence of pattern and relationship discourse in couple’s therapy, (pp. 197-214). In S. Gilligan & R. Price (Eds.), Therapeutic conversations. New York: W.W. Norton.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1993b). Separating couples from restraining patterns and the relationship discourse that supports them. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 19: 403-413.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1994a). Tales of the body thief: Externalizing and deconstructing eating problems, (pp. 295-318). In M. Hoyt (Ed.), Constructive therapies. New York:Guilford.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1994b). Using a narrative metaphor: Implications for theory and clinical practice. Family Process, 33: 233-246.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1995). Narrative therapy and the work of Michael White. In M. Elkaim (Ed.), Panorama des therapies familiales. Paris: Editions du Seuil.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1996). Situating this special section on narrative. (Special edition on narrative, J. L. Zimmerman & V. C. Dickerson, Eds.). Journal of Systemic Therapies.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C. (1996). If problems talked: Narrative therapy in action. New York: Guilford.
Zimmerman, J. L., & Dickerson, V. C.( 2001). Narrative therapy. In R. Corsini (Ed.), Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies. John Wiley & Sons.
Berndt, L., Dickerson, V.C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1997). Tales told out of school. In C. Smith & D. Nylund (Eds.), Narrative therapies with children and adolescents. New York: Guilford.
Janowsky, Z., Dickerson, V. C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (1995). Through Susan’s eyes: Reflections on a reflecting team experience. In S. Friedman, (Ed.), The reflecting process in action. New York: Guilford.
Neal, J., Zimmerman, J.L., & Dickerson, V.C. (1999). Couples, culture, and discourse: A narrative approach. In J. Donovan (Ed.), Short-term couple therapy. New York: Guilford.
