Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series editor's foreword -- At the Time David Constantine -- Prologue - or before the word -- Chapter 1 Learning language: historical and contemporary perspectives -- Chapter 2 The words that make us: influences on the development of therapeutic language -- Chapter 3 Language in therapy: words and symbols across theoretical frameworks -- Chapter 4 Communication without words: another language? -- Chapter 5 Being with the other: the role of language in therapy -- Chapter 6 Agendered language: does language have a gender - and an agenda - of its own? -- Epilogue - or after the word -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.