TRAINING TALES IN FAMILY-THERAPY - EXPLORING THE ALEXANDRIA-QUARTET

Educators frequently consider live supervision as the method of choice in facilitating an epistemological shift for family therapy graduate students. In this article, excerpts from a novel serve as an additiona l training tool to enhance graduate students' understanding of complex systemic approaches to therapeutic interaction. Lawrence Durrell's Th e Alexandria Quartet reveals epistemological concepts relevant to fami ly therapy in its portrayal of the richness of multiple voices and a l ack of certainty about predictable outcomes. Family therapy doctoral s tudents studied a didactic module based upon passages from the Quartet ; descriptive evaluation of this particular training experience sugges ts how literature can be useful in facilitating an epistemological shi ft that is often a challenge to family therapy graduate students and e ducators.