ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the work of the Family Therapy Team established in 2010 in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services of the Capital Region in Denmark. It develops a treatment based on narrative family therapy to help families struggling with complex psychiatric problems so severe that regular treatment, both in the hospital and in the community, had been inadequate. The book provides guidance in helping people who are heavily burdened with psychiatric illnesses. It explores how to use those models as facts and metaphors for imagining how a brain might work, and what might happen if people do this or that. The book argues that social constructionist theories when reflecting on how the different sciences affect the author's relationships with patients, their families, colleagues, and psychiatry.
