title: Have you heard the latest rumor about...? Solution-focused therapy as a rumor.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA. bulgaria@execpc.com
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Shazer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*