David Epston
David Epston | |
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| Born | 30 August 1944 |
| Occupation(s) | family therapist, author, social worker |
David Epston (born 30 August 1944) is a New Zealand social worker and therapist, co-director of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy University, an honorary clinical lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, and an affiliate faculty member in the Ph.D program in Couple and Family Therapy at North Dakota State University. Epston and his late friend and colleague Michael White (social worker and psychotherapist) are known as originators of narrative therapy.
Early life and education[edit]
David Epston was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he grew up. He began studies at the University of British Columbia, and left Canada in 1963 when he was 19, arriving in New Zealand in 1964.[citation needed]
Career in family therapy[edit]
In New Zealand Epston started working as a senior social worker in an Auckland hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as consultant family therapist at the Leslie Centre, run by Presbyterian Support Services in Auckland. From 1987 to the present he has been co-director of The Family Therapy Centre in Auckland.[1]
In the late 1970s Epston and Michael White led the flowering of family therapy within Australia and New Zealand.[1] Together they started developing their ideas, continuing during the 1980s, and eventually in 1990 published Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, the first major text in what came to be known as narrative therapy. In 1997 following the publication of Playful Approaches to Serious Problems Epston, along with his co-authors Dean Lobovits and Jennifer Freeman, initiated the website Narrative Approaches.[2] It includes series of authored and co-authored papers, artwork, and poetry in the form of an "Archive of Resistance: Anti-Anorexia/anti-Bulimia."
Publications[edit]
- 1989. Literate Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications.
- 1990. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. W.W. Norton.
- 1992. Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989-1991. With Michael White. Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
- 1997. Playful approaches to serious problems: narrative therapy with children and their families. With Jennifer Freeman and Dean Lobovits. W.W. Norton.
- 2004. Biting the hand that starves you: inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia. With Richard Linn Maisel and Ali Borden. W.W. Norton.
- 2008. Down under and up over: travels with narrative therapy. Edited by Barry Bowen. Karnac Books. ISBN 978-0-9523433-1-8
References[edit]
- ^ a b Susanna Chamberlain (2001). A tale of narrative therapy Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 6 October 2009.
- ^ "Narrative Approaches - Valuing Our Experiences, Living Our Stories". Narrative Approaches. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
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External links[edit]
- narrativeapproaches.com Remembrance of Michael White by David Epston.
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- 21st-century New Zealand psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Family therapists
- People from Auckland
- People from Peterborough, Ontario
- University of Auckland alumni
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of the University of Warwick
- John F. Kennedy University faculty
- 20th-century New Zealand psychologists