David Epston

David Epston was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he grew up. He left Canada in 1963 when he was 19, arriving in New Zealand in 1964. where he attended University of Auckland(1964-1966) == Career in family therapy ==

In New Zealand Epston started working as a senior social worker in an Auckland hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as consultant family therapist at the Leslie Centre, run by Presbyterian Support Services in Auckland. From 1987 to 2019 he was co-director of The Family Therapy Centre in Auckland. In the late 1970s Epston and Michael White led the flowering of family therapy within Australia and New Zealand. It includes series of authored and co-authored papers, artwork, and poetry in the form of an "Archive of Resistance: Anti-Anorexia/anti-Bulimia." == Publications ==

• 1989. Literate Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications. • 1990. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. With Michael White. W.W. Norton. • 1992. Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989-1991. With Michael White. Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications. • 1997. Playful approaches to serious problems: narrative therapy with children and their families. With Jennifer Freeman and Dean Lobovits. W.W. Norton. • 2004. Biting the hand that starves you: inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia. With Richard Linn Maisel and Ali Borden. W.W. Norton. • 2008. Down under and up over: travels with narrative therapy. Edited by Barry Bowen. Karnac Books. • 2016: with David Marsten and Laurie Markham. Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Know-how, W.W. Norton • 2017: with Wiremu NiaNia and Allister Bush. Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono: Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry, Routledge • 2022: with Travis Heath and Tom Carlson. Reimagining Narrative Therapy through Practice Stories and Auto Ethnography. Routledge. == References ==