Book Review - 'The Art of Solution Focused Therapy'
Sep 17, 2024
Abstract
Although the prime focus of InterAction is SF practice in organisations, we also bring you reviews of other noteworthy books in the SF arena. The Art of Solution Focused Therapy is, in my view, a very noteworthy book indeed. It takes a different and very interesting view of SF practice – not as a set of techniques or tools but as the stories and experiences of leading practitioners. The book is based around seventeen interviews with some of the world’s most experienced SF therapists. As the collection was assembled over the past year or so, this does not include Steve de Shazer or Insoo Kim Berg. The authors go out of their way at the start of the book to acknowledge the role of these two pioneers – indeed, for Elliott Connie, a relative newcomer to SF therapy, it was the death of Insoo and the consequent realisation that he would never meet her that sparked the original idea.