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Harvey Ratner explores further the complex and subtle relationship between Solution Talk and Problem Talk. It is not as simple as it might initially appear.

Evan George tackles the frequently asked question 'why do Solution Focused practitioners spend so long focusing on a detailed description of the preferred future?'.

We know that in Solution Focused Therapy legitimation for the worker's intervention comes exclusively from the answer to the 'best hopes' question. What if our preferred ways of thinking about people are impositional? Evan George explores this thought.

Evan George lists twenty-five ideas about clients and therapy that make good outcomes less likely and yet seem to be characteristic of the way that many workers seem to describe their work.

The question is raised over and over about the place of 'empathy' in the Solution Focused approach - here Evan George shares some very tentative thoughts as a starting point for discussion and further thinking.

The idea of the 'resistant client' is so common in the world of psychotherapy, and so much time is devoted to dealing with resistance, that people on courses are often puzzled 'why don't you talk about resistance?'. Here Evan George attempts to answer that question.

One of the most frequently asked questions in Solution Focused Practice is 'when is enough detail enough'? Evan George tries to address this difficult question.

This is one of the most frequently asked questions on Solution Focused training programmes. Evan George tries to address it.

The way that we describe our work is important and has preoccupied Evan for quite a while, since after all our description of what we do inevitably impacts how we behave towards our clients.

Muddles have been central to the thinking underpinning the development of Solution Focused Practice, sorting out the muddles caused by 'misunderstandings' of the logic of language. The muddle that Evan George explores here is rather less lofty!