David Epston

David Epston

David Epston is a New Zealand psychotherapist and co-director of the Family Therapy Center in Auckland . Together with the Australian Michael White , he has published three books, one of them in German. Together with Michael White, he is considered a pioneer of the narrative approach in systemic therapy . David Epston teaches at the Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He is considered a particularly creative and efficient therapist.

German-language publications

• The taming of monsters. Together with Michael White. Carl Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, 2006 (5th edition). ISBN 978-3-89670-528-0
• Meeting serious problems in a playful way: narrative therapy with children and their families. Together with Jennifer Freeman and Dean Lobovits. Dortmund 2000. ISBN 3-8080-0450-9

Web links

• David Epston . Narrative Approaches, archived from the original on March5, 2013; accessed on January 11, 2016(English, original website no longer available). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stumm, Pritz: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy , Vienna, New York 2005, p. 508 f.
2. ↑ http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/facdtail.htm , January 1, 2008