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Bibliography for The Solutions Focus


Origins

Gregory Bateson, Don Jackson, Jay Haley and John Weakland, 'Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia', Behavioural Science Vol 1 No 4, 1956 (reproduced in Gregory Bateson, 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind', Ballantine Book, 1972)
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Mary Catherine Bateson, 'With A Daughter's Eye', William Morrow and Company, 1984
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Wendel Ray, in 'Evolving Brief Therapies: In Honour of John H Weakland' (Wendel Ray and Steve de Shazer, eds), Giest & Russell, 1999.
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Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, 'Pygmalion in the Classroom', Irvington, 1968 (expanded 1992)
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Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, 'The Brief Therapy Tradition', in 'Propagations: Thirty Years of Influence from the Mental Research Institute (John Weakland and Wendel Ray, editors), The Haworth Press
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Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelus and Don D Jackson, 'Pragmatics of Human Communication', Norton, 1967
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Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch, 'Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution', Norton, 1974
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This is a key point in the writing on change - practical steps towards taking an interactional view and understanding instances of spontaneous change occurring in situations which appear hopeless.
Paul Watzlawick and John Weakland (eds), 'The Interactional View', Norton 1977
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Solution Focused and other Brief Therapy

Insoo Kim Berg and Peter de Jong. 'Interviewing for Solutions', Brooks/Cole 1998
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Brian Cade and Bill O'Hanlon, 'A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy', Norton, 1993
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Jenny Clarke, 'Occam's Razor as a Therapuetic Tool', Dissertation, National College of Hypnotherapy 1994
Michael Durrant, 'Creative Strategies for School Problems', Norton, 1995
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Ben Furman and Tapani Ahola, 'Solution Talk', Norton 1992
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Wally Gingerich & Sheri Eisengart (2000). Solution-focused brief therapy: A review of the outcome research. Family Process, 39, 477-498
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Jay Haley, 'Uncommon Therapy', WW Norton, 1973
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Linda Metcalf, 'Parenting Towards Solutions', Prentice Hall 1996
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Linda Metcalf, 'Teaching Towards Solutions', Center for Applied Research in Education, 1998
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Linda Metcalf, 'Solution Focussed Group Therapy', Free Press, 1998
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Gale Miller, 'Becoming Miracle Workers', Aldine de Gruyter, 1997
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Scott D Miller and Insoo Kim Berg, 'The Miracle Method', Norton, 1995
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Bill O'Hanlon and James Wilk, 'Shifting Contexts', Guilford Press, 1987
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Bill O'Hanlon and Michelle Weiner-Davis, 'In Search of Solutions', Norton 1989
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Bill O'Hanlon, 'Do One Thing Different', William Morrow, 1999
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Harry Norman, Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke, 'Paradox is a muddle: An Interview with Steve de Shazer', Rapport 34 pp 41 - 49, 1996
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John Rhodes and Yasmin Ajmal, 'Solution Focused Thinking In Schools', BT Press, 1995
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Steve de Shazer, 'Keys to Solutions in Brief Therapy', Norton, 1985
Steve de Shazer, 'Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy', Norton, 1988
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Steve de Shazer, 'Putting Difference To Work', Norton, 1991
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Steve de Shazer, 'Words Were Originally Magic', Norton, 1994
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Fritz B Simon, My Psychosis, My Bicycle and I', Aronson, 1996
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Michelle Weiner-Davis, 'Change Your Life and Everyone In It', Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1995
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Complexity Science and Interactions

Per Bak, 'How Nature Works'. Oxford University Press 1997
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John D Barrow, 'Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits', Oxford University Press 1998
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Arthur Battram, 'Navigating Complexity', Industrial Society, 1997
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John L Casti, 'Complexifictation', Abacus, 1994
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Richard Dawkins, 'The Blind Watchmaker', Penguin, 1986
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Daniel Dennett, 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea', Penguin, 1996
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Murray Gell-Mann, 'The Quark and the Jaguar', Abacus, 1994
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Kevin Kelly, 'Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines', Fourth Estate, London 1994
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Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William Behrens, 'The Limits to Growth', Universe Books, 1972
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Mitchel Resnick, 'Turtle, Termites and Traffic Jams', MIT Press, 1994
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Steven Rose, 'Lifelines', Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1997
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David Ruelle, 'Chance and Chaos', Penguin, 1993
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Karl Sigmund, 'Games of Life', Penguin, 1995
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M Mitchell Waldrop, 'Complexity', Viking, 1993
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John Ziman, 'Reliable Knowledge', Cambridge University Press, 1978
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Language

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, 'The Structure of Magic 1', Science and Behaviour Books, Palo Alto 1975a
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Richard Bandler and John Grinder, 'Patterns of Hypnotic of Milton H Erickson MD', Meta Publications, 1975b
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Sue Knight, 'NLP At Work', Nicholas Brealey Publications, 1995
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Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke, 'Occams Razor in the NLP Toolbox'. NLP World Vol 3, No 3, pp 47 - 56 1996
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. 'Intellectual Impostures', Profile, 1997
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Robert Tauber, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A Practical Guide to Its Use in Education', Praeger Publishers, 1997
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Paul Watzlawick, 'How Real Is Real?', Vintage, 1977
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Paul Watzlawick (ed), 'The Invented Reality', Norton, 1984
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, 'Philosophical Investigations', Blackwell, 1953
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (Translated D F Pears and B F McGuiness), Routledge, 1961
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Business

Meredith Belbin, 'Management Teams: Why They Succeed Or Fail', Butterworth Heinemann, 1981
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Shona L Brown and Kathleen M Eisenhardt, 'Competing on the Edge', Harvard Business School Press, 1998
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Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton, 'Now, Find Your Strengths', Simon and Schuster, 2001
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Clay Carr, 'Choice, Chance and Organisational Change', Amacom, 1996
Paul Z Jackson, 'Impro Learning', Gower 1998
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Martin Seligman, 'Learned Optimism', Random House, 1991
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Peter Senge, 'The Fifth Discipline', Century, 1990
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Appreciative Inquiry

David Cooperrider, Peter Sorensen, Diana Whitney and Therese Yaeger, 'Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change', Stipes, 1999
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Sue Annis Hammond and Cathy Royal (eds), 'Lessons from the Field - Applying Appreciative Inquiry', Practical Press, 1998
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