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Commonly Asked Questions about Narrative Therapy
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Dulwich Centre Publications
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Contains answers to commonly asked questions about narrative therapy
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Down under and up over: Travels with narrative therapy: a book to download!
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David Epston
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BOOK AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD David Epston is one of the two creators of narrative therapy, the other being the late Michael White. Part one, 'Down under', contains previously published work from different periods of David Epston's writing career. As always, each chapter reflects David's creativity, and at times those of his co-writers. Part two, 'Up over', contains six examples of David Epston's current work, all of which are printed here for the first time, including inventive approaches to chronic bed-wetting, relationships between children and their estranged fathers, court reports, stealing, and sibling conflicts, as well as a long chapter on Anti-Anorexia, a subject close to David Epston's heart. Down under and up over: Travels with narrative therapy was originally published by the Association of Family Therapy(UK) in 2008 and has now gone out of print. They have generously have given permission for the manuscript to be provided to interested parties for free. For further information about AFT and their publications, go to http://www.aft.org.uk/publications/other.asp
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Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations
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Michael White
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Only available to readers in Australia and New Zealand. This book of Michael’s previously unpublished papers is finally available! It consists of eleven previously unpublished chapters by Michael on topics as wide-ranging as subverting the operations of modern power, anorexia, working with men who have perpetrated violence, the significance of personal and community ethics, externalising and responsibility, narrative responses to traumatic experience, engagements with suicide, and couples therapy. The book also includes an editor's note from David Denborough, a preface from Jill Freedman, and an introduction from David Epston. Significantly, its epilogue contains the perspectives of narrative therapists from many different parts of the world in relation to ways in which the legacies of Michael's ideas and practices are being carried forth. This epilogue has been written by Cheryl White. This book is published by W.W. Norton.
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Speech and narrative (2010 no 4)
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Many of the papers in this collection break new ground in the field of narrative therapy, including papers on speech, vocal tics, and Tourette Syndrome. The collection also includes community work in Brazil and Zimbabwe, as well as practice-based papers on therapeutic letter writing and working with parents who are struggling with raising their children.
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Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger
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Barbara Wingard
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As Indigenous people of this country, we have faced so many losses due to past and present injustice. Grief’s presence has been with us for a long time. Now we are seeking ways of speaking about Grief that are consistent with our cultural ways of doing things. We are remembering those who have died, we are honouring Indigenous spiritual ways, and we are finding ways of grieving that bring us together. We are telling our stories in ways that make us stronger.
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The One Minute Question: What is Narrative Therapy? Some working answers
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Eric Sween
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A concise response to the question, 'What is narrative therapy?'
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What is Narrative Therapy? An Easy-to-Read Introduction
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Alice Morgan
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This best selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more
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A Community of Ideas: Behind the Scenes - The work of Dulwich Centre Publications
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Cheryl White & David Denborough
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The last twenty years has seen the creation of a 'community of ideas' linked to narrative therapy and community work. We conceptualise our work at Dulwich Centre Publications as occurring within this 'community'. This book describes ways of linking practitioners through the written word; ways of hosting conferences as community events; and ways of organising training programs that are congruent with narrative ideas.
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A critique of the DSM
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Karl Tomm
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In this paper, Karl Tomm raises his concern over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). He believes the impact of the DSM is felt far beyond the United States, and continues to grow larger. For this reason, he believes, more criticism of the DSM is required, and here discusses some criticisms that have been brought to his attention
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'A different story': Narrative group therapy in a psychatric day centre
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Ron Nasim
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This paper describes a narrative group therapy model applied in a psychiatric day centre. The group was conceived as a form of definitional ceremony, in which a participant is invited to share an account of a unique outcome that happened to them recently, while the other members serve as outsider witnesses to this development. A detailed example of a therapeutic conversation about depression, and the outsider witness group’s responses, shows how these generative conversations can be held in a psychiatric setting. A second example of this work details how outsider witness group reflections can be used to form the basis of an alternative kind of ‘discharge letter’. Finally, the paper discusses significant dilemmas arising from the work, including how to discern which subordinate story-lines to develop from the many entry points available.
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A gathering for young homeless men: Dealing with issues of violence
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Maggie Carey; Mark Trudinger; David Tully; Patrick
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This article documents a camp run for homeless young men, which explored issues of anger and violence using narrative approaches.
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A journey towards gender belonging: Adam's story
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Jodi Aman
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This paper summarises the journey of a sixteen-year-old young person who had felt displaced in the body of a somatic girl and now identifies as a young man. This has been a journey towards gender belonging. The information described in this paper was taken from a series of therapeutic conversations over an eight month period.
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A letter to Robyn: explorations of the written word in theraputic practice
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Robyn Pentecost
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This paper explores the co-production of a literary therapy. It is drawn from research conducted by Mandy Pentecost which investigated the therapeutic writing practices employed in one narrative counselling relationship in which Robyn was the client and Mandy the counsellor. Four different genres of writing were engaged with during the counselling process: ‘homework’ questions, a therapeutic letter, a ‘rescued speech poem’, and a short story. These four genres are described in this paper which is written in an auto ethnographic form in the shape of a letter to Robyn.
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A narrative approach to working with students who have 'learning difficulties'
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Jillian Huntley
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'Over the last eight years I have been working in Special Education in middle schools, catering for students from Years 6-9 (eleven to fifteen years of age). I am currently working in an all-boys’ school with students defined as having "learning difficulties". For many students, these difficulties begin in the very early years of schooling when the basic foundations for literacy and numeracy are introduced. Unfortunately, our education system tends to expect all students to be able to learn at the same rate and to be able to absorb and understand a curriculum that is not necessarily accessible to all...'
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A narrative theatre approach to working with communities affected by trauma, conflict and war
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Yvonne Sliep
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This paper describes a narrative theatre approach to working with communities affected by trauma, conflict and war. The approach was initially tried in villages within rural Malawi in relation to issues of HIV/AIDS. It has been developed further over the last ten years in different parts of the world and is currently being engaged with in Uganda, Burundi and East Congo.
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A service-user and therapist reflect on context, difference, and dialogue in a therapy for anorexia
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Tracy Craggs and Alex Reed
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This article was co-authored by the participants in a therapeutic process which occurred within a specialist eating disorders service in a hospital setting. One of us was seeking assistance in their struggle with anorexia, and the other was a therapist working in this field. In addition to our encounters in the therapy process, we share in common a background in research and an orientation towards postmodern research methodologies. We became interested in how this shared research interest might provide an additional resource towards creating new knowledges and change. Through a process of shared inquiry, we sought to explore, from our different positions, the therapeutic process that we were engaged in by attending to the different narratives that shaped our experiences, understandings and actions. In particular, the influence of the clinical context on our respective experiences of the therapeutic process was examined. Some tentative reflections are offered regarding the potentially fruitful inter-relationship between therapy and research activities, and the transformative potential of this kind of shared inquiry.
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A story of a quest to walk arm-in-arm with Wellness
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Jacinta Richards
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This is a paper about knowledge that comes from experience. As a narrative therapist, Jacinta Richards believes that in order to be able to piece together the stories and experiences of other people’s lives, she must first have begun to understand the experiences of her own. In this paper, Jacinta discusses the most challenging experience of her life – living with chronic fatigue.
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A tapestry of practice
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Various
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This 61-page collection includes reflections from 26 narrative practitioners on many aspects of narrative therapy ideas and practice.
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A thicker description of resilience
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Michael Ungar
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What happens when we stop using pathologising language and hear the stories of resilience that young people tell? This paper offers a more contextually sensitive understanding of resilience, one that thickly describes resilience as more than just a youth’s capacity to survive and thrive.
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A time to talk: Re-membering conversations with elders
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Bobbi Rood
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This paper describes using various narrative practices with elderly residents in a community care home. The author first reviews some of the historical influences of work with elderly people on narrative therapy, particularly the legacy of Barbara Myerhoff’s work on life histories and performance. Following this are different examples of outcomes of engaging in narrative conversations with elderly people including a collective document, poetry, and excerpts from re-membering conversations.
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Add the complete 2010 set to your library - The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work (For those who live outside of Australia)
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If you missed out on subscribing in 2010, you can purchase the set here!
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Addressing sex in narrative therapy: Talking with hetrosexual couples about sex, bodies, and relationships
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Yael Gershoni et al
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In talking with couples about sex, it is often assumed that storylines about sex also involve storylines about relationships and bodies. In our couple therapy work, however, we have found it significant to disentangle these storylines. By exploring separate storylines of relationship/intimacy, body image and sex, many new possibilities for narrative sex therapy with couples have emerged. This paper outlines these possibilities through sharing one example of narrative sex therapy with a heterosexual couple.
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Adoption: Selected Papers
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Various Authors
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Adoption is one topic that - when written about - raises many questions and poses certain dilemmas. Many views can be taken on the topic, and there are always stories to be told. In this package, we have included some of these stories. There are stories of those who have had negative experiences when working with people who have been through adoption, and those who have personally experienced adoption. There are also the stories to be told from mother's who have given their children up for adoption, and of course, those too, from adoptive parents about their role. Not all stories are covered in this collection, but we hope to have given a broad overview of the processes and effects of adoption.
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African-American Perspectives 2002 no 2
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This issue contains a wide range of papers, including an inspiring community research process, a profound oral history project, and a framework for post-colonial and culturally-appropriate therapy. The issue also includes two key articles on externalising and poststructuralism. This out-of-print journal is now available as a downloadable PDF.
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Albert Namatjira, my family, racism, and me
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Mark Trudinger
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This article explores the author's family's personal histories of culture, racism, and privilege, seeking to answer the question 'what does it mean to be white?'.
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Alcohol, drugs and suffering
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Terry Callahan
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This paper is a brief report on a project in which Terry was witness to the stories of suffering and alcohol abuse by Mary (not her real name), who at the time had been in session with him for eight months.
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Alternative interventions to violence: Creative interventions
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Mimi Kim
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Are the solutions to violence against women and children to be found via state interventions – through the police, prosecution and imprisonment? Or are alternative, grassroots, community based responses required? These are questions being asked by many women of colour in the USA. Creative Interventions is an organisation based in Oakland, California, which seeks to empower families and communities to resolve family, intimate partner and other forms of interpersonal violence. It is hoped that this piece will spark conversations about ways of supporting community initiatives to address violence against women. Practitioners and community members working on similar issues in other countries are invited to contribute their ideas and stories.
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An exposé of 'body-worry'
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Cari Corbet-Owen
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Concerns about body size and weight have increased in western cultures in past decades. This brief paper recounts how one client, concerned about ‘body worry’ for both herself and her daughter, was able to engage in a deconstructive conversation about body image and diet. Unpacking some of the cultural understandings and prescriptions around these issues provided a foundation for the client to renegotiate her relationship with ‘body-worry’ and restore her relationship with her daughter.
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An invitation to narrative practitioners to address issues of privilege and dominance
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Salome Raheim et al
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This document has been created by a group of therapists, community workers and educators from Samoa, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, USA and the UK. What we have in common is a deep sadness at much of what is occurring in the world and a commitment to play our part in continuing to foster communities of therapists and community workers in which broader relations of power are acknowledged and addressed in our work.
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An unfinished identity project
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Leonie Simmons Thomas
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'In this paper, I want to convey some of the stories involved in constantly creating and negotiating an identity as a woman with Vietnamese heritage living in a white dominant culture. It is my hope that such a perspective may shed different light on questions of identity and culture which could be relevant to the field of therapy and community work.'
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Annals of the 'New Dave'- Status- Abled, disabled, or weirdly abled
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Epston, Lobovits & Freedman
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Dave’ and his family were struggling wit the effects of what is commonly referred to as ‘ADD’. Described in this paper are attempts to work with Dave and his family that honour difference and yet at the same time in no way minimize issues of violence. Dave’s mother Sharon offers a beautiful introduction to this paper – informing us of how it all began for them, when they first noticed Dave was different. This paper will be of assistance to those working with young people, those trying to address ‘ADD’, and those who are seeking a form of therapy that celebrates difference.
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Audience as accountability? Dilemmas in the use of outsider-witness practices in supporting men’s anti-violence projects
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David Newman
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This article explores the author’s concerns about accountability when inviting women as outsider witnesses to conversations with men. A practice-based example of working with a man on issues of anger and violence provides a springboard for thoughtful questions about gender accountability, men’s privilege, safety, and ‘non-burdening invitations’.
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Azima ila Hayati - An invitation in to my life: Narrative conversations about sexual identity
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Sekneh Hammoud-Beckett
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This paper describes a therapeutic conversation with a young gay Muslim man and his brother which was shaped by the definitional ceremony metaphor. Through deconstructing ‘games of truth’ in relation to attitudes to homosexuality and the process of ‘coming out’, space was created for this young man and his brother to realign their relationship. In the midst of the current hostile climate affecting all Arab Muslim families, this paper describes the story of two brothers and their concept of loyalty.
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Beating Sneaky Poo: Ideas for faecal soiling
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Terry Heins and Karen Ritchie
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Faecal soiling is perhaps one of the most distressing problems that parents can face – and it is just as frustrating for children! This problem can cause family members and friends despair and irritation as they try to get it under control. This article has assisted many families in minimizing the effects of such a problem. Terry Heins and Karen Ritichie have succeeded in making useful knowledge about externalising conversations available in an easy to understand and light-hearted publication. The illustrations by Geoff Pryor and Quantum make the ideas come alive for children. The foreword is by Michael White.
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Beginning to use a narrative approach in therapy
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Alice Morgan
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We invited Alice Morgan to write the following article. Over the years we have had many requests for writings that describe the process of beginning to engage with narrative ideas and practices. Within the following paper Alice describes some of the ways in which she began to engage with narrative ideas and what she found helpful in the process. We believe that this piece will be of interest to those who are new to narrative ideas, and also to those who are teachers and trainers.
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Beyond the Prison: Gathering dreams of freedom
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David Denborough (ed)
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This book is a heartfelt invitation to look beyond our taken-for-granted notions of crime, punishment and imprisonment. Beyond the Prison is a passionate expose of the politics of imprisonment, as well as an inspiring account of alternatives. Addressing issues of class, gender and race, and exploring the beliefs and ways of being which permeate the prison system, David draws primarily on his work with men in a maximum security prison, as well as conversations with a range of people in Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
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Breaking the silences: Acknowledging our own stories, talking with our families and the nation
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Virginia Leake and Yehuda Shaul
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Breaking the Silence is an organisation of young Israelis who are publicly sharing the stories and images of what they were involved with when serving in the military in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Their work is contributing to debate within Israeli society and their exhibitions have also travelled the world, raising awareness of the consequences of occupation wherever it is taking place. This interview describes the different sorts of silences – personal, familial, national – that act to sustain occupation and the work that is required to change this. The following piece will be relevant not only to those with an interest in the Middle East, but also for those working with the military, ex-military and their families, and for those working with people who are trying to come to terms with what they may have participated with in the past.
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Bringing narrative practices to psychopharmacology
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SuEllen Hamkins
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This paper considers how narrative therapy practices can be brought to the field of psychopharmacology. Specifically, the paper explores how clients’ evaluations of medicine – including negative and positive effects, as well as their preferences for its use – can be brought more to the centre of medicine consultation.
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Building partnerships in responding to vulnerable children: A rural African community context
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Yvonne Sliep
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This article documents a project in rural Malawi and describes some emerging principles to assist community workers who are seeking to respond to vulnerable children in poverty-stricken environments. A key focus involves building partnerships with all concerned.
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Cards as theraputic documents
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Adams Hahs
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Therapeutic documents have been a feature of narrative practice for many years. In this paper, the author introduces a little-used type of therapeutic document, greeting cards. Examples include a ‘bon voyage’ card to worry, a celebration card due to the reduction of fear, and an anniversary card marking a year of ‘reduced sadness’. The author has found this type of brief therapeutic document to be a very effective part of the therapeutic engagement.
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Caring about Violence and our communities
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Amanda Reddick
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Developing meaningful partnerships and relationships between workers responding to violence and communities affected by these issues requires considerable care and thoughtfulness. In this piece, Amanda Reddick describes some of the thinking that is informing the community engagement she is involved in and the histories upon which this is based.
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Caucusing as communication
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Sharon Nosworthy & Kerry Lane
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'Co-research is an attempt to work in ways that honour the experiences and knowledges of young people and enable adult workers to step outside of expert roles. During camps on the central coast of New South Wales, we have been exploring co-research involving young people and workers which incorporates caucusing and reflecting team work...'
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Challenging Developmental Truths - Separating from Separation
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V. Dickerson, J. Zimmerman, L. Berndt
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Adolescence has been the subject of many studies and much discussion. Usually, the ideas about adolescence centre around the so-called developmental task of separation/individuation and finding one's identity. This article suggests a focus on a counter-narrative of connection. It will be of practical value for practitioners working with young people and their families.
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Challenging disabling practices
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This heartfelt collection of papers explores many different ways of talking about living and working with issues of disability. Powerful expressions of the experience and politics of disability sit alongside practical examples of ways of working.
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Child protection (2009 no 3)
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This issue offers new thinking and ideas for narrative practice in a range of areas that are close to our hearts.
Part One includes papers on using narrative ideas in child protection and with people affected with intellectual disabilities. Part Two features two papers on using songs and songwriting in narrative practice, in varied settings. The final paper explores how to shape narrative therapy to fit local cultures.
This is a thoughtful collection of creative papers!
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Children & young people: Dreams, responses & dilemmas
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Due to requests from readers, this issue focuses on ‘Children & young people: Dreams, responses and dilemmas’. The first paper, by Angel Yuen, proposes a ‘response-based narrative practice’ to assist children who have been subjected to trauma. The second, by Milan Colic, describes the use of narrative practices to explore the meaning of the dreams being experienced by a young person with whom he was working. And the third, by Jodi Aman, conveys ways in which narrative approaches can assist in linking families together when children/young people are going through difficult times. Two papers on the theme of ‘Eating issues’ follow. Ali Borden describes the work of the Eating Disorder Center of California. She conveys how narrative ideas can be used within a treatment centre to provide opportunities for the renegotiation of identity in group settings. Cari Corbet-Owen then provides a brief ‘exposé of body-worry’. The final section focuses on ‘Sharing dilemmas of practice’, with Chris Chapman and David Newman reflecting on their work with men who have been violent and/or abusive.
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Climbing the mountain: The experience of parents whose children are in care
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Louise Mather & Lyn Barber
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The experience of parents whose children have been removed from their families by child protection services is a realm that is rarely considered. This paper, created from a series of interviews, describes the inspiring work of a Parenting/Playgroup for parents whose children are in care. The principles which inform this group are described and the experiences of the parents themselves are conveyed.
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Collaborative Representation: Narrative ideas in practice
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Sue Mann
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Collaborative Representation is a wonderful paper on Sue's journey of inviting hospital patients to contribute to what information is recorded in their medical records. An insight into practices that influenced her as a social worker.
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Collective narrative practice with rape victims in the Chinese society of Hong Kong
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Suet Lin (Shirley) Hung
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This article presents an example of collective narrative practice with Chinese women who have experienced rape. In a cultural context where rape is an immense taboo and a source of shame, this group project linked individual women to the collective.
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Collective Narrative Practice: Responding to individuals, groups and communities who have experienced trauma
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David Denborough
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This book introduces a range of hopeful methodologies to respond to individuals, groups and communities who are experiencing hardship. These approaches are deliberately easy to engage with and can be used with children, young people and adults. The methodologies described include: Collective narrative documents, Enabling contributions through exchanging messages and convening definitional ceremonies, The Tree of Life: responding to vulnerable children, The Team of Life: giving young people a sporting chance, Checklists of social and psychological resistance, Collective narrative timelines, Maps of history, and Songs of sustenance. To illustrate these approaches, stories are shared from Australia, Southern Africa, Israel, Ireland, USA, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere. This book also breaks new ground in considering how responding to trauma also involves responding to social issues. How can our work contribute not only to ‘healing’ but also to ‘social movement’? As we work with the stories of people’s lives can we contribute to the remaking of folk culture? And is it possible to move beyond the dichotomy of individualism/collectivism? Collective narrative practices are now being engaged with in many different parts of the world. This book invites the reader to engage with these approaches in their own ways.
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Combining relaxation and guided imagery with narrative practices in therapy with an incest survivor
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Razi Shachar
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This paper explores the use of relaxation and guided imagery in conjunction with narrative therapy, with a woman dealing with the effects of trauma related to sexual abuse. The author explores some of the more complex issues around sex and intimacy, along with ways of unpacking sex, body image, and dominant cultural norms, in a complex and nuanced context.
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Coming to terms with the events of September 11
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Kenneth V Hardy
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Kenneth V. Hardy is a well known and widely respected family therapist who lives and works in New York City. In this piece he speaks of the events of September 11th, the question of rage, forgiveness, injustice, power and privilege. This interview with Ken Hardy was conducted by David Denborough.
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Communities respond to HIV/AIDS, Diabetes & Grief
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This issue explores ways of working with communities that seek to facilitate unity in the face of potentially overwhelming problems. Two examples of these ways of working are explored: the work of Yvonne Sliep and the CARE Counsellors of Malawi, Africa, on issues of HIV/AIDS; and the work of the Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Project of South Australia on issues of diabetes and grief.
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Community Practice 2003 #2
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How can narrative ideas be engaged with in work with communities of people? This issue responds to this question. Papers include: a description of the work of the Peer Counsellors of the Irish Wheelchair Association and the National Council for the Blind of Ireland; 'Narrative practice and community assignments', by Michael White: and a paper by Yvonne Sliep that describes emerging principles to assist community workers who are seeking to respond to vulnerable children in poverty-stricken environments. This journal also contains the paper 'Feminism, therapy and narrative ideas'. This out-of-print journal is now available as a downloadable PDF.
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Community therapy: A participatory response to psychic misery
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Adalberto Barreto & Marilene Grandesso
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This collection introduces ‘community therapy’ which has been developed in Brazil to respond to various forms of social suffering and ‘psychic misery’. The collection includes an introduction to the history, key tasks, and stages of a community therapy gathering; a description of one example of a community therapy meeting; and a brief exploration of how ideas from narrative therapy have been introduced into community therapy practices.
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Companions on a Journey: An exploration of an alternative community mental health project
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This journal describes the work of a group of people centred around the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide who were involved in creating an alternative Community Mental Health Project in an attempt to meet more adequately the needs of people with psychiatric diagnoses who are considered 'chronically' and mentally ill. Within the project, people who experience 'voices and visions' (often referred to as the auditory and visual hallucinations of schizophrenia) work together with community support workers to expose the tactics and effects of these 'voices and visions'; to honour and build upon individuals' knowledges and skills; to create ever-widening communities of reflection and support; and to question collaboratively the dominant ways of understanding and living in this culture.
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Complexity
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This journal issue explores realms of complexity in relation to working with women who have experienced sexual abuse; and the experiences of parents whose children are in care. Also included are ideas for counselling flyers that are congruent with narrative ideas. Three practice-based papers then follow: ‘Narrative therapy with young people: What externalising practice and use of letters make possible’, ‘Towards a ‘poethics’ of practice: Extending the relationship of ethics and aesthetics in narrative therapies through a consideration of the late work of Michel Foucault’ and 'Narrative practice with boys struggling with anorexia'.
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Considerations of Place
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Mark Trudinger and Manja Visschedijk
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What might be some of the possibilities of exploring the relationship of ‘place’ to identity in the lives of the people with whom we work? This article explores some ideas that might inform this work, and details one practice-based example: working with young men on issues of gender and violence. Part 1 explores the relative invisibility of ‘place’ in narrative therapy and its source texts, as well as in the broader histories of thought in western culture, before looking at some possible sources of inspiration and thinking about how we might be able to explore place more fully in narrative practice. Part 2 examines the social construction of maps and their relation to identity, looks at how mapping has been used to support new directions in the lives of individuals and communities, and wonders how maps might be taken up as therapeutic documents in narrative therapy. Part 3 is an outline of a workshop the author has run with young men based on the preceding ideas, which examines the perpetration and resistance to violence in local places, and in the young men’s negotiation of those places.
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Considerations of Place
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This publication begins with a paper that provides an account of how the metaphor of 'therapist as host' can shape therapeutic practice. It then also focuses on 'Considerations of Place', inviting us to consider the significance of 'place' in the formation of identity, and reflects on this topic. There are also examples of outsider-witness practices and an article describing the 'Inside/Outside' program looking into the stories of those who are incarcerated. Within this journal you will also read about the mental health project. Last, but not least, an interview with Kiera Zen in East Timor.
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Conversations about communication with men
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Geoff Watson
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When many of the men who were consulting with Geoff Watson complained of ‘communication breakdowns’ in their lives, Geoff thought it an idea to have a conversation with men about communication. It seemed, after all, that ‘communication’ was responsible for many of their problems. This paper attempts to answer many questions, such as: ‘What is this thing we call communication?’ and ‘Why is communication only problematic in certain circumstances?’ It will be a valuable companion for those working with men who wish to communicate differently.
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Conversations about conversations on chronic pain and illness: Some assumptions for a one-day workshop
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Tom Strong
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The ways in which we talk about pain and illness greatly reflects on how we experience it. The more we talk about painful situations, the less painful they become. This paper approaches such conversations in a workshop format, that create differences intended to generate new forms of resourcefullness. Strong suggests that conversing on how we converse about pain and suffering has the potential to minimise the suffering.
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Conversations about gender, culture, violence & narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures
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Edited by Angel Yuen & Cheryl White
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This inspiring book consists of writings from women of many cultures about initiatives, projects and ways of working to respond to violence. This collection will be powerfully relevant to practitioners working with individuals, families and/or communities whose lives are affected by violence and abuse. It includes practice-based chapters describing narrative ways of working with those who have experienced violence and also creative ways of engaging with men and women who have enacted violence against others.
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Conversations in groups with women about their experiences of using anger, abuse and violence
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Julie Sach
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This paper considers gendered constructions of anger and how women’s experiences of using anger, abuse and violence may be shaped by these. It also examines the contribution of difficult life experiences like trauma and abuse in shaping women’s anger responses. The article describes an evolving approach to group work with women that seeks to address some of these complexities.
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Conversations with divorced parents: Disarming the conflict and developing skills of collaboration
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Anne Kathrine Loge
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Parents who have divorced often experience conflict-saturated accounts of each other and their relationship. This paper shares some narrative approaches which seek to help divorced parents ‘disarm the conflict’ and develop skills of collaboration. This work involves exploring each parent’s preferred values and purposes with linguagrams, inviting divorced parents to act as outsider witnesses for each other, and inviting in other divorced parents to act as outsider witnesses for the parents seeking therapy.
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Conversations with persons dealing with problems of substance use
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Wendy West
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This article provides practice-based narrative ideas for working with people who stuggle with substance use. The author gives examples of questions which unmask 'drug thinking', explore the effects of drug use, and help establish a different place to stand based on new or reclaimed purposes, values, beleifs, and commitments.
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Co-research: The making of an alternative knowledge
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David Epston
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Co-research was a term David Epston concocted in a very specific set of circumstances to describe a practice at considerable variance to ‘family therapy’ of the late 1970s. This paper describes the background to the development of this way of working, specifically in relation to problems of asthma and anorexia.
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Countering injurious speech acts: Destabilising eight conversational habits of highly effective problems
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Stephen Madigan
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This paper discusses eight internalised injurious speech habits that contribute to the existence and maintenance of problems in people's lives. These habits are self-surveillance/audience, illegitimacy, escalating fear, negative imagination/invidious comparison, internalised bickering, hopelessness, perfection, and paralysing guilt. The paper then provides a full discussion of how to deconstruct and destabilise these habits, including many questions useful in therapeutic conversations.
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Creating an alternative pathway through the criminal justice system: Enabling stories to be heard
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Kate Hannan
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This article describes the work of the Australian-based Court Support Program, which offers support to young people who have been charged with committing a crime, or have been a victim of crime. The program helps young people understand the criminal justice system during the three stages of presentencing, sentencing, and post-sentencing. To describe the program's work in detail, the author presents her work with one young man using a range of narrative practices during each of these three stages.
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Creative narrative practice
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This journal is a collection of thoughtful and at times profound papers from England, South Africa, the USA, and Australia, all focussed on new directions in narrative practice. Part one includes papers about transforming a women's refuge to become a place of celebrating women's stories, as well as a piece on using cartoons in therapeutic practice. Part two includes two papers about working with older people in aged care home contexts, as well as using collective narrative documents as eulogies. Part three explores narrative practice in pastoral care contexts, while the final section includes a paper about working in a context of extreme self-harm. This issue is at once creative, challenging, and hopeful.
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Crisis and Community
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Over the years, we have often received requests for articles about how narrative therapy ideas can be applied to crisis work. The first section of this issue comprises of two papers on this theme. The first, by Elizabeth Buckley and Philip Decter, offers a narrative and anthropological framework for working with children and families in crisis. The second paper, by Manja Visschedijk, explores the ways in which narrative ideas can be helpful for managers in responding to ‘crisis’ situations. The second section of this journal issue describes an approach to community work informed by narrative ideas that we hope will be of relevance to practitioners in a wide range of contexts. Over the last year, a number of Aboriginal communities, which are experiencing hard times, have been exchanging stories. These are stories about special skills, special knowledge, about hopes and dreams and the ways that people are holding onto these. They are stories that honour history. This article describes the thinking that has informed this process. It also contains extracts of stories and messages from different communities. The third section of this journal consists of two further practice-based papers. Judith Milner recounts the story of how a group of parents, who were caring for children whose behaviour had been sexually concerning or harmful, transformed their lives and, in the process, transformed a service. And David Epston, Cherelyn Lakusta and Karl Tomm describe a novel approach to parent-children conflicts.
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Crossing the river: A metaphor of separation, liminality, and reincorporation
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Therese Hegarty, Greg Smith, & Mark Hammersley
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This paper explores how the metaphor of a river can be used to illustrate the ‘rites of passage’ concept introduced to narrative therapy by Michael White, drawing on the work of Van Gennep. The authors document a project using the metaphor with men renegotiating their relationships with drugs and alcohol in a residential program in Australia.
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Dancing our own steps: A queer families' project
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Kath Reid
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This paper focuses on the key narrative practices that informed the Queer Families project, which sought to co-explore and richly-describe diverse meanings of ‘family’, and ways of ‘living’ family. The project explored the history of the skills, practices, hopes, and dreams that family members brought to their versions of ‘family’, and drew on the metaphor of ‘family as a verb’, to explore alternatives ways of doing ‘families of choice’. The article first contextualises the concept of family, deconstructing dominant ‘family’ narratives in western cultures, and historicising the notion of ‘nuclear family’. It then describes the key narrative practices that informed the project, including re-authoring and re-membering conversations, therapeutic letter-writing, and documenting shared community themes. The article then describes the collective narrative practice of sharing these themes with other people to generate ‘re-tellings’ that were then shared with the initial families in the project.
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Dancing with death
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Lorraine Hedtke
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This article addresses the ongoing continuity of relationship. Lorraine Hedtke believes that when a person dies, a relationship does not die. When we experience death not as a finality but as an invitation to a new relationship with our dying loved one, we are breaking from a modernist approach that dictates we must 'get over' our grief and 'move on' in life. In spite of what we are taught about how a bereaved person should behave and grieve, 'letting go' may even be a harmful pathway.
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De-colonizing our lives: Divining a post-colonial therapy
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Makungu Akinyela
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As colonized people, our healing must come through self-determined action. The task for those of us from African traditions is therefore to take steps in generating and identifying culturally appropriate practices, processes and methods to heal our own. We are challenged to rescue, reconstruct, and define therapeutic metaphors based on our own cultural and historical experiences. This process is what I refer to as the development of a post-colonial therapy.
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Deconstructing addiction and reclaiming joy
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The Deconstructing Addiction League
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This paper consists of extracts from discussions on the Deconstructing Addiction League E-list. It includes correspondence between members, theoretical and practical considerations, celebrations, a virtual interview and definitional ceremony, as well as the first story in what is hoped to become an archive of practices of joy and connection – free from substances. This collection also demonstrates the ethic of community that is central to the League’s work.
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Deconstructing perfectionism: Narrative conversations with those suffereing from eating issues
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Shona Russell
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In this paper, I will discuss some of the narrative practices that have guided me in work with people suffering the effects of eating disorders. In preparing this paper, I have chosen to carefully review notes and transcripts of therapeutic conversations that span several years and which trace the journey of Katerina in her determination to reclaim her life from illness. I would like to acknowledge and thank Katerina for her significant contribution to our work together and for her willingness to share aspects of her life.
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Deserving the best: Challenging rules in therapy
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Sally Tomkins
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Sally Tomkins works at the Langton Centre, a centre for people troubled by alcohol and/or other drug problems in Sydney. This paper describes her work with Chris who came along to the narrative group program and the journey they undertook together. Keywords: drug, prison, remembering, reflecting teamwork
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Dilemmas about 'taking responsibility' and cultural accountability in working with men who have abused their female partners
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Chris Chapman
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In this paper, Chris Chapman describes two incidents from his work with men who had abused their female partners in which he inadvertently perpetrated cultural dominance. In one of these incidents, his ‘knowledge’ of the other man’s culture eventually allows him to recognise the cultural dominance; in the other, his ‘knowledge’ of the other man’s culture actively facilitates the cultural dominance. Chris reflects on these incidents in an attempt to reflexively problematise notions of cultural competency and individualistic notions of responsibility.
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Discourse not language: The shift from a modernist view of language to the postmodern analysis of discourse in family therapy
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Stephen Madigan & Ian Law
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Modernist interpretations of language have led to a view of words and sentences as reflecting the "reality they represent". These ideas have been evident in developing the foundation of the culture of family therapy practice. Recently, discourse has become a popular theme for discussion. This paper discusses the shift from a modernist view of language to a postmodern view of discourse and its implication for the development and practice of family therapy.
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Discovering childrens responses to trauma: a response-based narrative practice
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Angel Yuen
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Modern discourses of victimhood, which are often present in instances of childhood trauma, can contribute considerably to establishing long-term negative identity conclusions. However, focussing on children’s responses to trauma can aid in conversations that contribute to rich second story development, without re-traumatising children or young people. These kinds of enquiry can focus on children’s acts of resistance, places of safety, and other skills of living. This paper gives examples of therapy informed by this approach, and provides a map of four levels of enquiry for conversations with children and young people which elicit and build upon responses to trauma.
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Documenting Work In Schools
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David McNenamin
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Young people’s lives are evaluated and recorded on a daily basis by teachers and adults. Whilst working as a student counsellor in a New Zealand high school, Donald McMenamin realized the power of this documentation and sought to put it to work in acknowledging students’ skills, achievements and abilities. Working side-by-side with students, and developing transparent processes of documentation within the school, this paper conveys ways of making document mean far more than just a bit of paper – instead, these documents become celebrations of knowledge and skills and in turn enable young people to gain greater control over the problems they may be facing in their lives..
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Documents and Treasures: power to our journeys
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Sue, Mem & Veronica
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Power To Our Journeys was formed when women who either currently struggle with hearing voices, or have heard voices in the past, came together to share their knowledges and skills and to challenge conventional ideas about mental health issues. In this keynote address, Sue, Mem and Veronika share some of the discoveries that they have found along the way.
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Documents of knowledge about violence from African Nova Scotian communities
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Dulwich Centre Publications
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Members of North End Halifax and East Preston, two African Nova Scotian communities, have been meeting together to talk about violence and ways of addressing it in their context, and in their ways. Included here are key documents that have been created from these conversations. These include: • ‘Some key knowledge and ideas about violence in African Nova Scotian communities’ from women representing North End Halifax and East Preston • ‘Principles in relation to responding to violence in African Nova Scotian Communities’ • ‘Men speaking out to prevent abuse’ & ‘A Brother’s food for thought’ from the men of the communities of East Preston and North Preston. These documents have been circulated throughout the communities to spark further conversation and action on these issues.
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Don't leave mother in the waiting room
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Margaret Roberts
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This article discusses my therapy with mothers and children, following the disclosure of child sexual assault perpetrated by a person related to the child... Following a brief outline of the traditional approach to therapy with children who have been sexually assaulted, two illustrative studies in which the therapy involved joint sessions with the child and mother are discussed. This is followed by a brief overview of the theoretical framework upon which I have drawn for my work with mothers and children.
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Dreams are never really lost: The voices of young women in secure care
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Adrielle, Amy and Alicia
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Written by three young women who live in secure care, this paper tells of what life is like for them and what it takes to get through. The stories discuss the discoveries they have made, the strategies they have developed, and the dreams that have been re-found along the way. This paper was offered as a presentation at the International Women in Prison Conference, held in Brisbane in November 2001.
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Eating issues, transgender journeys and narrative practice
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In this journal issue: Eileen Hurley describes her use of narrative documents in work with young men in a US jail. Maksuda Begum conveys stories of her work in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in which she speaks with children with disabilities and their mothers. An alternative intake questionnaire informed by narrative ideas, which was developed by David Denborough in collaboration with Maksuda Begum, is also included. Due to requests from readers, we have then included two papers about the use of narrative practices in responding to eating issues. Shona Russell describes ways in which narrative conversations can contribute to a deconstruction of perfectionism, while Tracy Craggs and Alex Reed provide a novel account of therapy for anorexia. The final section of this issue consists of four papers which focus on transgender experience and possibilities for practice.
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Emily, the cat, and a Christmas star
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Geraldine Gandolfo
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'The story outlined below reminds me of what becomes possible when I resist the temptation to rush into finding solutions to children’s problems. It reminds me that ‘wandering in the maze’ is an integral part of the process of working respectfully and a privilege as for a short time I am invited into the world-view of children.'
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Enabling forgiveness and reconciliation in family therapy
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Karl Tomm
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Within every family there are conflicts of some sort, whether it be of knowledge, understanding or personal values. Family members can often be deeply hurt or affected by these differences and, if left unresolved, can result in damaged relationships. Usually, however, family members will attempt to reconcile the relationship. This paper is an effort to share the understanding of some of the more complex issues associated with family conflict and reconciliation.
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Escaping the effects of violence: Therapeutic gatherings with mothers and their children
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Maggie Carey
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'Recently at the counselling service in which I work, we have been exploring a new way of working with mothers and children who have experienced violence. We hop on a bus with a dozen or more families and a good handful of counsellors and head out to the country. These events have come to be known as ‘gatherings’. Informed by narrative ways of working, they involve children ranging in age from infants to sixteen-year-olds. In this paper, I wish to share some of the experiences and learnings that have been generated from our initial gatherings...'
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Establishing non-criminal records
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Eileen Hurley
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This paper highlights the use of therapeutic letters and documents in working with young men in a US jail. Examples of documents generated for and with young men include those designed to summarise conversations, request an audience, bear witness, invite support, link lives, archive solution knowledges, share skills and knowledges, and perform ceremony and song
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Ethical curiosity and poststructuralism
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Katy Batha
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In this paper, the author explores the idea of ethical curiosity in therapeutic inquiry and the ways in which poststructuralist theories support her work as a school counsellor. The paper also poses some questions to reflect upon whilst aiming to perform ethical curiosity.
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Every conversation is an opportunity: Negotiating identity in group settings
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Ali Borden
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Therapy within the context of a treatment centre can spread and confirm stories of deficit, or it can be an opportunity in which preferences and skills reverberate within a community and enable preferred reputations to be born. In a group setting, every conversation is an opportunity to negotiate meaning, and every group provides a stage for the performance of identity. This paper describes some ways that we at the Eating Disorder Center of California day treatment program guide some of that performance, including how we seek to take apart assumptions about eating problems and recovery, what is relevant to share, and what people have in common. Our intention is to open space for women to share their experiences as rich and complicated; their preferences as diverse, varied, and dynamic; and at the same time encourage points of connection, camaraderie, and community.
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Experience Consultants
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This special issue contains papers related to the theme ‘Experience Consultants’, and each paper in the first section of this journal has been written by those with insider knowledge of particularly complex experiences. These include experiences of growing up with a parent with serious mental healtrh concerns; the story of a therapist who herself experienced psychosis; stories from the Romany people about ways of generating culturally appropriate practice; a story from a young Australian woman who was adopted from Vietnam and has developed unique ways of understanding issue of culture and belonging; and insider knowledge about diverse experiences of gender and sexual identities. To complete this issue, we have included two papers on the theme of re-thinking formal clinical paperwork and assessment. William Madsen offers a range of ideas and suggestions as to ways of working within traditional structures that support a collaborative clinical practice. While Mim Weber explores constraints, dilemmas and opportunities in relation to ways in which narrative ideas can inform assessment processes in relation to ‘eating disorders’.
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Experience, Contradiction, Narrative & Imagination
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David Epston and Michael White
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The papers in this book cover a range of subjects including: personal reminiscence; particular therapeutic practices; practical approaches to various problems; theoretical, political and philosophical considerations; structures and issues pertaining to training and supervision; processes of questioning in the co-authorship of preferred stories.
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Experiences of homelessness
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Kathy
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This interview explores one woman's experiences of homelessness.
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Extending Narrative Therapy: A collection of practice-based papers
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This book contains narrative therapy practice-based papers that extend on possibilities in relation to externalising conversations, group work, and community work. Other sections include 'In our own voice', in which authors write of the ways they have re-authored aspects of their own experience; 'Talking about sexual abuse'; and 'New ways of introducing narrative therapy'. This book has been put together for practitioners who wish to keep in touch with the latest ways in which people are extending narrative ideas.
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Externalising questions: A micro-analytic look at their use in narrative therapy
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Tom Strong
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This paper examines the narrative therapy practice of asking and answering externalisation questions. It looks at some of theoretical and clinical literature related to the use of these questions and then turns a micro-dynamic look at some examples of how such questions were asked and answered in the course of therapeutic dialogue. The focus is on learning from these analyses to enhance therapists’ ability to engage clients in collaborative and resourceful externalising conversations.
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Family therapy: exploring the field's past, present and possible futures
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David Denborough (ed)
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In these personal and thoughtful interviews, influential family therapists from different parts of the world invite the reader into their worldview and the history that has shaped it. In some circumstances they also offer reflections and regrets about aspects of past practices, and they speak of what continues to inspire them. This is a friendly and personal book which enables readers to engage with the history and diversity of ideas of the field of family therapy and also to get to know, in some small way, those whose stories are contained in these pages
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Feminism and post modernism: Dilemmas and points of resistance
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Rachel Hare-Mustin & Jeanne Marecek
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This influential paper explores the relationship between feminism and postmodernism
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Finding grief: Using fiction-writing to communicate experience after the death of a loved one
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Susannah Sheffer
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This paper tells the story of how a fifteen-year-old boy, in the aftermath of his mother’s death, discovered a way to articulate and share his experience through writing, particularly through the creation of a fictional character. The paper looks closely at the relationship between the teenager and the author who worked with him, and at the way in which fiction can offer a unique opportunity to create a character that is ‘not oneself’ while paradoxically allowing for a deeper exploration of one’s own emotional landscape.
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Finding resliency, standing tall: Exploring trauma, hardship, and healing with refugees
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Mike Boucher
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This document records some of the traumas and hardships faced by refugees living in Rochester, New York. Along with the effects of these hardships, the document also records the accomplishments that refugees have made, and how refugee communities resist the effects of trauma and hardship, as well as what sustains them.
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Folk Psychology and Narrative Practice by Michael White
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This edition consists of a paper by Michael White entitled Folk Psychology and Narrative Practice. Within it, many of the practices of narrative therapy are linked to an historical tradition of understanding life and identity that is at times referred to as 'folk psychology'. Consisting of descriptions of a range of therapeutic conversations, as well as rigorous considerations of ideas, history and culture, this paper represents a considerable contribution to the field of narrative therapy.
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Forever Able
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Lorna Roberts, Bernie Francis & Vi Eastham
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Lorna, Bernie and Vi are older people with stories to tell. They wish to share their stories to connect with the 'not yet disabled' community to lay the groundwork for future generations.
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Forgiveness linked to justice
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Charles Waldegrave
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This interview with Charles Waldegrave of The Family Centre in Wellington, New Zealand explores many issues related to forgiveness and justice. It explores such topics as social justice, redress, culture, spirituality and religion, and the relation of forgiveness to family therapy and community work.
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Fostering change, fighting fires and fishing
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Ireni Esler
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'When Tom was six years old, his parents had taken him to a Child Mental Health clinic. Here he had been given the diagnosis of severe oppositional behaviour, major learning disabilities, and attention deficit and hyper-activity disorder. The clinic recommended using medication and behavioural management. By the age of nine Tom was sent to a special school for boys with difficult behaviours, but he had returned to the family as fiery as ever...'
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From Debate to Dialogue: A facilitating role for family therapists in the public forum
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S. Roth, L & R Chasin, C. Becker, M. Herzig
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The Public Conversations Projected originated in 1989 to explore whether the skills used by family therapists to address seemingly intractable family conflicts could be usefully applied to stalemated public controversies. This paper concentrates on the initital exploration on the public controversy about abortion. It aims to develop an easily recognisible dialogue process in which each participant can explore and express the unique set of experiences, values, concerns and doubts that underlie his or her perspective on a divisive public issue, and become open to the experiences, values, concerns, and doubts of other people, whatever their views.
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From gender dysphoria towards gender euphoria
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Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
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This paper is a brief reflection on ‘No turning back: Male to female transgenders’ journeys of getting through tough times’ by Aya Okumura, and ‘The gender binary: Theory and lived experience’ by Julie Tilson, David Nylund and Lorraine Grieves. The author explores some of the effects of transgendered existence on partners and families, and wonders if we can move from concepts of ‘gender dysphoria’ to ‘gender euphoria’.
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From Isolation to Community: Collaborating with children and families in time of crisis
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Elizabeth Buckley and Phillip Decter
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This article offers a narrative and anthropological framework for working with children and families in crisis. Psychiatric crisis can invite practitioners to prioritise their own ideas about problems and solutions above collaboration. The article argues that practices of collaboration are crucial when responding to these kinds of crises, and offers a framework for remaining in collaborative and hopeful positions. A range of clinical examples are also provided.
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From oppression, resistance grows
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Holly Loveday
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This paper explores the author’s use of narrative practices with women experiencing domestic abuse, and looks at how, despite living in a broader environment of secrecy and threat, women’s voices and stories can be honoured and a place of refuge can become one of laughter and celebration.
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From print to e-books in therapeutic story writing: A mother's tale
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Nikki Evans
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This paper describes how narrative therapy provided the background for developing a resource for troubled children and young people. The resource, Eloise’s excellent experiment, is the result of combining the professional with the personal as the author and her daughter used their storytelling, writing, and illustrative skills to tame ‘The Worries’.
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From Stigma and Isolation to Strength and Solidarity: Parents talking about their experiencesn of caring for children whose behaviour has been sexually concerning or harmful
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Judith Milner et al
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This is the story of how a group of parents who were caring for children whose behaviour had been sexually concerning or harmful, transformed their lives. In the process, they also transformed a service!
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Gathering Stories about growing up with a parent with mental health difficulties
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Shona Russell
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This project aims to gather stories that relate to the experience of children whose parents or carers have/had serious mental health difficulties. The project is seeking stories that not only richly acknowledge the difficulties faced, but also the skills and knowledge of children in these situations and the many different facets of the relationships between parents and child. It is hoped that a resource will be developed for children and for practitioners. This paper introduces this project, provides a list of questions to assist people in describing their experiences, and contains some examples of stories.
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Getting it out there: Young women take a stand against sexual violence
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Cindy Gowen & Stephanie Paravicini
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This is a story about several young women from California and their journey back from despair and depression. These young women decided to share their stories so that other young women might learn from what happened to them.
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Group work with women who have experienced violence
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Jacqui Morse & Alice Morgan
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In working with women who have experienced violence in heterosexual relationships, groups provide a way to link lives around shared themes, values, and commitments. This paper gives examples of using narrative practices to centre women's knowledge, to locate responsibility, to accentuate preferred descriptions of identity, and to build connections between women. This solid, practice-based paper offers many examples of questions, themes, and structures for running groups with women who have experienced domestic violence.
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Growing up with parents with mental health difficulties
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Ruth Pluznick and Natasha Kis-Sines
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This paper documents a project with young people who are growing up with a parent with mental health difficulties. The authors discuss how they are able to employ the narrative practice ‘double-listening’ to stories by the young people – listening not only to the challenges that this experience brought, but also asking about the skills, knowledges and opportunities the young people used to respond to these. This and the other narrative principles that informed the project – such as co-research and ‘enabling contribution’ are demonstrated by the inclusion of a therapeutic document from work with a young man, and a transcript of a conversation with a young woman and her mother.
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Haunting from the future: A congenial approach to parent-children conflict
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David Epston, Cherelyn Lakusta and Karl Tomm
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This paper describes a novel approach to parent-children conflicts. It has been developed in response to situations when the present is particularly vexatious or where parties are passionately committed to their respective position which requires each to either defend it, or attack the rectitude of the other, and where to relent or even hesitate would risk loss of face.
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Histories and hopes: A younger man's perspective on men's relationships
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David Denborough
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This paper explores the influences of feminism, the resurgence of Indigenous Australia, and gay liberation on young men growing up in Australia.
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History and Practice
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This issue includes: five accessible and thorough practice-based papers detailing the use of outsider-witnesses in narrative therapy; school counselling practices; working with people who are struggling with problems of substance use; and ways of destabilising the habits of highly effective problems. The second section contains thoughtful interviews relating to history and healing. Two of these were conducted in South Africa and relate to ways in which Apartheid and Holocaust histories are being engaged with to contribute to healing in the present. The third describes the inspiring work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City. The final section, entitled 'Voices from Bali' has been created as a response to the bombing that took place there in 2002. This out-of-print journal is now available as a downloadable PDF.
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Homelessness
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In this publication a variety of papers from Australia, Brasil, North America and South Africa, explore the experience and politics of homelessness. Practice-based papers also describe a variety of projects and ways of working with the complexity of this issue. This journal features the last interview given by Paulo Freire.
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How we learnt that scratching can really be self-abuse: Co-research with young people
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Sharon Nosworthy & Kerry Lane
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'Working with teenagers who self-mutilate raises lots of concerns for the therapist which invite the therapist to take responsibility for safety and argue against self-mutilation. We found ourselves caught in this position with several of the young women we were working with in therapy. Our genuine efforts to be helpful were rejected and met with hostility by the young women, which left us feeling even more scared and useless. We were desperate to find a way to break this vicious cycle...'
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Humorous Stories: Antidote to despair?
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Michele Murphy
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Intrigued by the numerous positive qualities of humour and how it might be therapeutically useful, Michele Murphy was inspired to write this paper. It proposes a narrative approach to humour in therapy that attempts to overcome many of the practical, moral and ethical pitfalls that can be associated with therapists' use of humour.
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'I give things a go': The story of how Dylan Wise rediscovered his confidence
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Andrew Tootell
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This paper tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy called Dylan who attended therapy sessions with his mother and father in order to address issues of depression and a lack of confidence. The paper comprises memories of counselling sessions, copies of letters and transcripts of videotapes, as well as a letter from Dylan, three months post therapy. Here, Andrew Tootell shares his journey with Dylan, and his parents, as they uncovered the experiences and important events that just did not fit the dominant story of Dylan and enabled him to step into new experiences of himself and of his life. This paper will be of relevance to those working with children and their families.
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In our own voice: African-American stories of oppression, survival and recovery in mental health systems
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Vanessa Jackson
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This landmark paper summarises the work of the 'In our own voice' oral history project, which collected stories of African-American people's experience of mental health ideology and treatment in the USA. The paper is divided into four parts: 'Freedom made us nuts' (a historical overview), 'Truth telling: Giving voice to liberation', 'Honoring our past, celebrating our present and protecting our future', 'In search of history'. The final two sections provide strategies and resources for using history projects as a tool for healing and social change.
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Independence and local knowledge: The work of East Timor Insight
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Kiera Zen
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This interview with Kiera Zen describes the philosophy and work of East Timor Insight. Emphasising the significance of honouring and building upon East Timorese local knowledge and skills, this organisation is proposing alterative models of research, education and community development. The interviewer took place in Dili, East Timor, in March 2006. The interviewers were Cheryl White and David Denborough.
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Innovative approaches to working with young people
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This groundbreaking issue contains four diverse sections: - Innovative approaches to working with young people
- Palestinian and Indian narrative practice
- Narrative explorations in clinical health psychology
- Talking about sex and sexual identity
The topics are wide-ranging and likewise span work across the globe. From hopeful work with Palestinian ex-detainees and narrative approaches with a young girl in India, to work combining cultural studies theory and narrative practice with Harry Potter and Grand Theft Auto ... this issue also looks at ways to use fiction-writing in contexts of grief, narrative work in clinical health psychology environments, and polyamory and 'sex addiction'. If you're looking for stretches in narrative thinking and practice from around the world, this is a great place to start!
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Intertwining the present with the past for the future
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Linette Harriott & Belinda Heyward
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This paper will be of interest to those engaging in narrative supervision, either as supervisors or supervisees! Belinda and Linette are both interested in narrative ways of working and have worked side by side in courses and supervision groups. When Linette visited Belinda for supervision consultations, rich conversations arose. This paper describes these conversations and ways of addressing the effects of ‘Feebleness’, ‘Doubt’ and ‘Self evaluation’.
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Introducing counsellors to collaborative supervision
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Preparing counsellors for supervision is a long-neglected area. In this paper, Kathie Crocket explores the positioning of counsellors in supervision and offers an example of a letter she writes to students as a way of introducing them to the notion of collaborative supervision and all this can entail.
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Introducing Narrative Psychiatry: Narrative approaches to initial psychiatric consultations
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SuEllen Hamkins
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This paper is the first in a series to examine the use of narrative therapy approaches within psychiatry. The author, psychiatrist SuEllen Hamkims, describes ways in which narrative ideas shape the initial conversations she has with those who consult her.
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Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent & abusive
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Alan Jenkins
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This influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others.
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Is this sex addiction?: Questioning 'sex addiction' in therapeutic counselling conversations
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Ash Rehn
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This paper examines the concept of ‘sex addiction’, and its increasing popularity since the emergence of AIDS in gay communities in the 1980s. Adopting narrative therapy’s ethical orientations of decentred yet influential positioning, and being in a ‘lifelong apprenticeship’, the author worked with a number of men to renegotiate their relationship with ‘sex addiction’ in their lives.
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'It was not the words that hit mum': Working with the effects of domestic violence
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Carolyn Markey
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This paper documents the journey of conversations conducted between counsellor Carolyn Markey, eleven year old Jesse, forteen year old Josh and their mother, Joanne, all who have been deeply effected by domestic violence. A compilation of transcribed conversations, personal letters and drawings, 'It was not the words that hit mum' uncovers the ways in which children can be deeply affected by domestic violence and how they learn to survive.
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Just Therapy - A journey: A collection of papers a from the Just Therapy Team, New Zealand
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Charles Waldegrave, Kiwi Tamasese, Flora Tuhaka &
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This book brings together in one volume the work of the Just Therapy Team which has, over the last two decades, inspired and challenged therapists and community workers in many different countries and contexts. Their introduction of the term 'Just Therapy' and their determination to bring issues of gender, culture and socioeconomic justice into therapeutic considerations have had powerful implications.
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Kanna's lucid dreams and the use of narrative practices to explore their meaning
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Milan Colic
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This paper presents how the lucid dreaming of a young woman, Kanna, was unpacked in line with the ideas and practices that underlie narrative therapy. It outlines how Kanna’s dream was rendered into a metaphor in order to story events and experiences in her life, culminating in the selection of a new support ‘Team’, and changing what she had come to know as distressing nightmares into ‘lucid dreaming’, in which she was authorised to shape the stories that she now could tell herself in both her sleep and her waking life.
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Kite of Life: From intergenerational conflict to intergenerational alliance
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David Denborough
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Intergenerational conflict brings with it significant challenges. And conflict can be especially complex in refugee and migrant communities, where old and young people alike have to negotiate the ways of the ‘old’ and ‘new’ countries. Sometimes, these challenges can lead to seemingly intractable and irresolvable differences. This publication introduces a new collective narrative methodology, the Kite of Life, which was developed during a project in St James Town, Canada’s most densely populated community.
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Language, power and intentions: Some ideas of working with people whose lives are affected by substance use
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Michelle Cherubin
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In this nuanced and thoughtful paper, Michelle Cherubin shares stories from her work with people whose lives are affected by substace use. The paper explores the ideas that inform her thinking when deciding which conversational directions to explore. Key themes include the use of language in therapy, considerations of modern power, responding to concerns about harm and considerations of protection, richly storying the web of relationships people have with alcohol and drugs, and therapist intentions in this work.
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Learning from children and adults in times of war: Stories from bomb shelters in the north of Israel
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Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran
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This paper describes a three-day visit to Qiryat Shemoneh, a small city in northern Israel, which was affected by war in mid-2006. The authors describe some of their understandings of the effects of war trauma, including the negative impacts on people’s identities, the isolation of people from others, and the positioning of people as ‘helpless victims’. They then explore how to respond to war trauma and its effects while people are still living under fire. This is illustrated by transcripts of conversations with families and children. Finally, they explore how workers dealing with the effects of war can support themselves during this work.
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Learning the craft: An internalised other interview with a couple
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Belinda Emmerson-Whyte
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This paper presents extracts from a couple therapy session to highlight some of the identity and relationship re-constituting and re-authoring prospects discovered while applying David Epston’s and Karl Tomm’s ‘internalised other questioning’.
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Letter writing: Possibilities and practice
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Susan Stevens
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This article revisits the use of therapeutic letter writing in narrative therapy contexts. The purposes, types, and content of letters are explored, with examples given of various letters written in different therapeutic contexts. The article discusses how letters can support the various maps of narrative practice, as well as workplace and professional development considerations, such as time pressures and funding considerations, as well as how letter-writing can support learning various aspects of narrative practice.
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Life-saving tips from young Muslim Australians
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There are all sorts of hassles that young people have to deal with. Hassles at school, trouble at home. And for some of us, you can add poverty and racism to the mix. That’s why a whole bunch of young Australians from Muslim backgrounds have come together to share our life-saving tips with you. We’ve made this publication and DVD about our ways to survive tough times in life. We hope the ideas we’ve come up with might be helpful to you, wherever you are living, and whenever you’re feeling down. This publication and DVD (PAL only) based on collective narrative practice can be used in work with young people who can then share their messages and responses via our website with young people from other parts of the world.
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Life-saving tips from young Muslim Australians
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Dulwich Centre Foundation
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There are all sorts of hassles that young people have to deal with. Hassles at school, trouble at home. And for some of us, you can add poverty and racism to the mix. That’s why a whole bunch of young Australians from Muslim backgrounds have come together to share our life-saving tips with you. We’ve made this publication and DVD about our ways to survive tough times in life. We hope the ideas we’ve come up with might be helpful to you, wherever you are living, and whenever you’re feeling down. This publication and DVD (PAL only) based on collective narrative practice can be used in work with young people who can then share their messages and responses via our website with young people from other parts of the world.
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Light a candle... finding a way forward: The work of 'The Way'
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Virginia Leake, Younes Musa and Kahled Abu Awwad
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This interview took place in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories. It describes the work of a new Palestinian organisation The Way: The Palestinian Organisation for Development and Democracy which seeks to build a Palestinian civil society and achieve an independent Palestine through non-violent resistance. This interview traces the history of this organisation's work, the challenges being faced, the projects they are developing, and a philosophy that engenders hope. The interviewer was Virginia Leake, who works for Dulwich Centre Publications. Angel Yuen and Ruth Pluznick were also present.
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Linking families together: Narrative conversations with children, adolescents, and their families
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Jodi Aman
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This paper explores ways of responding to the problems children and adolescents face in ways that include and honour the contributions of other family members. For example, parents and care-givers can be enlisted to help with scaffolding and outsiderwitnessing, as well as providing what the author refers to as ‘comemories’. The paper also discusses specific ways of working with children, such as keeping therapeutic conversations fun, regarding children as ‘story listeners’, opening space for conversations about difficult problems, and using therapeutic documents. How these considerations are put into practice is then documented in three accounts of working with children and adolescents on issues of anxiety, the death of a pet, and a parent’s diagnosis of cancer.
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Linking Stories and Initatives: A narrative approach to working with the skills and knowledge of communities
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David Denborough et al
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This paper describes an approach to community work informed by narrative ideas that we hope will be of relevance to practitioners in a wide-range of contexts. Over the last year, a number of Aboriginal communities, which are experiencing hard times, have been exchanging stories. These are stories about special skills, special knowledge, about hopes and dreams and the ways that people are holding onto these. They are stories that honour history. This article describes the thinking that has informed this process. It also contains extracts of stories and messages from different communities.
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Loss and letters
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Alex Millham and Natalie Banks
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This paper consists of two letters. The first letter is from a therapist to a young woman consulting her about her experience of the therapy sessions they had shared together. The second letter is the young woman’s response. It is hoped that these letters will provide other therapists with ideas for working with young women around issues of loss and grief.
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Lost in Normality - Kit of Question Cards
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Jane Hutton and Kate Knapp
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'Lost in Normality...recapture the extraordinary' is a creative and useful kit containing 36 illustrated question cards and a little book exploring the tricks and torments of normality. The cards are designed to be used in therapeutic or group conversations to enable people to start deconstructing concepts of 'normality' and to question various normative judgements that may be having real impact on their lives and sense of identity.
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Lost in Normality - Kit of Question Cards
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Jane Hutton and Kate Knapp
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'Lost in Normality...recapture the extraordinary' is a creative and useful kit containing 36 illustrated question cards and a little book exploring the tricks and torments of normality. The cards are designed to be used in therapeutic or group conversations to enable people to start deconstructing concepts of 'normality' and to question various normative judgements that may be having real impact on their lives and sense of identity.
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Love
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This special issue focuses on the theme of ‘love’. Includes: the use of narrative practices in deconstructing jealousy; in working with male partners of women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse; and in examining and deconstructing how certain philosophies of love are influencing couple relationships. These pieces also consider how children respond to family tragedies; ways of assisting parents to reclaim their knowledge and pride in their children’s differences; and how to assist therapists to respond to the confusion that some women who have been subject to childhood sexual abuse experience in relation to understandings of love.
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Mad Fax Sunday: Are some virtual communities more real than virtual?
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Kerry Lane, David Epston & Sue Winter
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The following paper tells the story of a therapist who was stuck, overwhelmed and isolated by a problem that seemed to defy therapeutic techniques and skills. On the verge of giving up, she reached out to her support network - by fax. What began as a method of last resort, turned out to reveal a way of therapeutic possibilities. This paper is both a critique of the isolating and exclusionary effects of many conventional mental health practices, and also an additional to the literature on reflecting teams, audiences and communities of concern.
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'Making haste slowly': Applying a narrative approach to the task of managing a 'crisis' situation
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Manja Visschedijk
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This short piece explores the ways in which narrative ideas can be helpful for managers in responding to 'crisis' situations. It is written by a manager of a supported accommodation service. The author would appreciate any feedback, discussion or ideas from readers about this article or on any aspect of the use of narrative approaches in the management of similar 'crisis' situations.
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Maps of Narrative Practice
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Michael White
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Only available to readers in Australia and New Zealand. In this long-awaited book, Michael White outlines the key maps of narrative practice - externalising, re-authoring, re-membering, definitional ceremonies, scafolding conversations and ways of highlighting unique outcomes. This easy-to-read and yet rigorous book contains moving transcripts of conversationsand detailed explanations of practice. This book pulls together and summarises the key therapuetic ideas and practices that have come to be known as narrative therapy. It is an ideal starting point for practitioners exploring narrative ideas but is also recommended for experiened narrative practitioners. This book is published by W.W. Norton.
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Mental health and families
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This issue both expands our thinking about how narrative ideas can be applied, as well as reporting on two projects initiated by Dulwich Centre. Part One of the journal features three papers on mental health and families: 'Children, parents, and mental health' by Dulwich Centre; 'Growing up with parents with mental health difficulties' by Ruth Pluznick and Natasha Kis-Sines; and 'When your child is diagnosed with schizophrenia: The skills and knowledges of parents' by Amanda Worrall. Part Two, 'Alternative assessments: Looking for subordinate stories' features the article 'Narrative approaches in Centrelink: "It's those turning questions . . ."' by Lesley Dalyell. Finally, Part Three documents Dulwich Centre's 'Women and Grief' Project, which features contributions from around the world. In all, this issue is both profound and moving in its content, as well as stimulating and rigorous in its application of ideas in new ways and contexts - showing that, as narrative practice is engaged with around the world, the ideas are being taken up in innovative and generative ways.
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Michael and 'the Drink'
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Benjamin Herzig
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This paper presents a description of work with Michael, an outpatient client struggling with alcohol. A framework informed by narrative therapy allowed the author and Michael to create a story about how alcohol dependence – ‘the Drink’ – had intruded upon him, caused trouble for him, conspired with other problems, and prevented him from crafting a lifestyle that he desired.
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Michael White: In memory
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John Winslade & Lorraine Hedtke
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The following piece has been written by John Winslade and Lorraine Hedtke as an offering to the narrative therapy field. John and Lorraine were both present in Michael White’s final workshop in San Diego. They were with Michael when he suffered a heart attack at a restaurant in the evening after this workshop, and they played significant roles in caring for friends and family from this moment until Michael died in a San Diego hospital a few days later. Their actions of care made a real difference to many people during this time. The piece that follows has tried to balance family concerns in relation to privacy, with requests from many people who knew and cared about Michael who have specifically asked to know more about Michael’s last days. A range of friends, family members and colleagues have contributed their reflections and perspectives in an attempt to achieve this balance. David Epston has also kindly contributed an introduction.
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Michael White's workshop notes
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Michael White
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Michael White's workshop notes
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Mitakuyu Oyasin - All of my relations: Exploring metaphors of connectedness
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Loretta Perry
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'My intention in this paper is to explore how we can make the inclusion of children’s voices and young people’s voices, their experiences and ways of being, a central aspect of our work. I want to pose the question: What would therapy look like if we responded to children’s invitations and challenges?...'
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Multiple Personality Disorder: A social phenomenon?
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Susi Chamberlain
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Incidence of Multiple Personality Disorder is reported, almost exclusively, among sufferers of sustained and often horrific sexual, mental, or physical abuse. As such, the increase in Multiple Personality Disorder demonstrates unmistakably the prevalence of abuse in Western society. This paper does not challenge the explanation of experience which has been presented as Multiple Personality Disorder. It seeks, instead, to explore the cultural milieu in which such an explanation of experience has become viable.
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Mungalli Falls Indigenous women's healing camp
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Greta Galloway & Robyn Moylan
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This paper provides a sparkling example of a community gathering, shaped by narrative ideas, designed to respond to the experiences of Indigenous Australian women. The paper describes a women's healing camp that was held for Indigenous women in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It provides a detailed account of the narrative and other processes engaged with at the camp, and provides participants' evaluation and recollections of this event one year later.
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Musical re-tellings: Songs, singing, and resonance in narrative practice
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Chris Wever
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This paper documents the author’s use of songwriting in therapeutic contexts, especially when working with people in prison and the significant people in their lives. These songs fulfil different purposes: to honour survival and resistance and protest injustice; to assist in the re-membering of lives across time and beyond death; and to celebrate and proclaim subordinate storylines.
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My practice as described by those who consult me
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Marit E. Lokken
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Clients’ experiences of conversations with therapists is a crucial issue, but one that is often not directly researched. Marit Løkken embarked on a research project that involved not only asking her clients about their experiences of therapy, but also involved developing the research project, and the questions asked, in consultation with those clients.
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Narrative approaches in Centrelink: 'It's those turning questions...'
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This paper documents a narratively-based interview guide for social work assessments used in Centrelink, a major Australian government department. The questions used in the assessment are illustrated by examples from conversations with the young people and their parents consulting the service, as well as reflections from the team of social workers who trialled the interview guide. The paper shows how working within existing governmental frameworks can still lead to conversations with clients that are respectful, generative, and hopeful.
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Narrative explorations in clinical health psychology
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Rob Whittaker
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This paper documents the author’s experience as a clinical psychologist using narrative approaches with people living with diabetes. The paper begins by contrasting narrative and poststructuralist approaches with those of contemporary clinical health psychology, and gives some background on diabetes and the broader challenges this can bring to people’s lives. Three narrative practices are then explored in relation to diabetes: externalising conversations, re-authoring conversations, and practices of circulation.
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Narrative foundations and social justice
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Bharati Acharya
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Narrative practice has a long interest in issues of social justice. This paper explores some of the relationships of these two realms, and asks ‘What are the ways in which narrative foundations and practice can support those who work tirelessly for social change?’
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Narrative groupwork with young women - and their mobile phones
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Judith Milner
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This innovative paper describes work with a group of young women at risk of sexploitation. Aware that mobile phones were an important part of these young women's lives, Judith incorporated the group members' mobile phone calls into the group conversations. This helped recruit a wider audience, facilitate the expression of alternative ways of being, and developing a support network.
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Narrative ideas in the field of child protection
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Alison Knight & Rob Koch
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This paper explores the use of various narrative practices with children and their families in child protection settings. The first half examines how a ‘double listening’ approach and the engagement of outsider witnesses can be used with children who have experienced trauma and abuse. The second half of the paper gives an account of therapy over a number of months, with a family struggling with the effects of violence, alcohol and depression.
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Narrative maps of practice: Proposals for the Deconstructing Addiction League
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Anthony C.
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This paper invites therapists to consider establishing community resources informed by narrative practices as a way of challenging the culture of consumption and assisting those trying to revise their use of substances. The paper also discusses a range of specific proposals as to how various narrative maps of practice can be used to deconstruct addiction.
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Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
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Michael White and David Epston
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Available only to readers in Australia and New Zealand. This groundbreaking book, which introduced 'narrative ideas' to the therapy world, presents a respectful, often playful approach to serious problems, with groundbreaking theory as a backdrop. The authors start with the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience. In this way narrative comes to play a central role in therapy. This book also contains delightful examples of a storied therapy.
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Narrative mediation: Assisting in the renegotiation of discursive positions
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John Winslade
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This paper describes how the practice of mediation might be pursued from a narrative perspective. In the process, it introduces an emphasis on the analysis of ‘discursive positioning’ which can be helpful in making sense of what happens in conflict situations, as well as being a useful conceptual tool in the practice of mediation. Keywords: narrative mediation, discursive positioning
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Narrative practice and community assignments
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Michael White
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This paper describes how narrative practices can be used with communities who are facing various concerns and predicaments. It describes in detail the assumptions behind this work, as well as key principles such as transparency and 'doubly listening'. Also explored are understandings about addressing psychological pain and emotional distress in a context of trauma; developing partnerships between the therapeutic team and community members; and how to structure community-wide gattherings using definitional ceremony and documentation. This is a key article in the field of narrative approaches to community work.
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Narrative sex therapy
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This issue of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work features what we believe will be an influential paper by Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer and Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky entitled: ‘Narrative sex therapy: Talking with heterosexual couples about sex, bodies, and relationships’. The first section of this journal issue also includes a paper titled: Using the ‘failure conversations map’ with couples experiencing fertility problems. The second section of the journal focuses on a key aspect of narrative practice: an ethic of circulation. This relates to ways in which therapists and community workers can document and circulate the skills and knowledge that people are using to address difficulties in their lives. Three papers are included here. The third section of the journal includes two thoughtful papers which explore how research can influence practice. One of these relates to the meanings of sexualised coercion and gender in psychosocial group sessions for women. The other undertakes conversational analysis of externalising conversations. This diverse journal issue includes papers from Canada, Israel, Australia, Denmark and England.
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Narrative Therapy & Community Work: A conference collection
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This journal represents a range of workshops, presentations and conversations that took place at the second Dulwich Centre Publications' Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference in Adelaide in February 2000. From practice-based seminar papers, to keynote addresses on 'Reconciliation' and 'Spirituality', this collection contains a diversity of thoughtful and inspiring writings.
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Narrative Therapy and Community Work: A Conference Collection
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This book represents a range of workshops and presentations that took place at the inaugural Dulwich Centre Publications’ Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference in Adelaide in February 1999. From practice-based seminar papers, to the perspectives of Indigenous Australia, to hearing from the voices of young people, this collection contains a diversity of thoughtful and invigorating writings. Contributors include writers from Israel, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South America.
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Narrative Therapy and Research
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Includes a diverse collection of papers relating to narrative therapy and research. Also includes papers that: question how attitudes to women’s sexuality influence women who have been subjected to sexual assault; proposals for using narrative maps of practice to assist people in changing their relationships to substances; a letter discussing transsexual/transgendered experience; and the write-up of a recent gathering on Robben Island, South Africa, in which participants came together to try to find ways to contribute towards the healing of histories of trauma that have occurred in their respective countries.
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Narrative therapy at any age
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Dafna Stern
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This article recounts the author’s explorations in narrative therapy in conversations with two centenarians living in a nursing home. Through focussing on the elderly people’s own skills and knowledges of life, externalised conversations about death, and conversations about making contributions to others, new and renewed accounts of life were created, in a context where this might often be unexpected.
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Narrative Therapy in Practice: The archaeology of hope
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G. Monk, J. Winslade, K. Crocket and D. Epston
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Narrative Therapy is based on the idea that problems are manufactured in social, cultural, and political contexts. Each person produces the meaning of his or her own life from the stories that are available in these contexts. This acessible and popular book provides chapters on the theory of narrative therapy as well as a collection of papers that demonstrate its practice. These include writings on narrative approaches to psychiatry, countering alcoholic narratives, therapy with male sexual abuse survivors, school counselling, group work and narrative mediation. This book is the result of an unusual collaboration of therapists, counsellors, community and mental health workers, educators, and students who share a firm belief in the hopeful and cooperative style of this therapeutic process.
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Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families
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Michael White & Alice Morgan
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This long-awaited book brings together two popular authors – Michael White and Alice Morgan. Here they share stories from their counselling practice with children and their families and provide explanations of the thinking that shapes these conversations. Detailed explanations are provided of externalising practices, scaffolding conversations, ways of inviting significant others to act as an audience to consultations with children, and considerations relating to the position of the therapist. Moving and amusing stories of work with children and their families are also included and the following questions are considered: When there is conflict between parents and children, how can therapists create a context for collaboration? How can counsellors respond to children who have experienced significant trauma? When a therapy session with a child is going nowhere, what might be helpful to reflect upon? How can narrative practices shape child protection inquiries? If your work involves conversations with children, this easy-to-read and rigorous book, will prove to be a treasured companion.
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Narrative therapy with young people: What externalising practice and use of letters make possible
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Dave McGibbon
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This paper explores how preferred identities of young people can be made more visible through externalising practices and the use of therapeutic letters.
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Narrative therapy, 'eating disorders', and assessment: Exploring constraints, dilemmas, and opportunities
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Mim Weber
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This paper is a work in progress. It is an exploration of the usefulness of an eating disorders assessment and referral service to the people who consult it; and whether such a service can avoid practices which could be experienced as reinforcing of the eating disorder, pathologising, or blaming. It also looks at the possibility of working with narrative therapy ideas in an environment which does not necessarily subscribe to those ideas.
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Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions
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Shona Russell & Maggie Carey (compiled by)
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If you are trying to engage with narrative practices in your therapy or community work then this easy-to-read and yet thorough and rigorous book has been created with you in mind. We recommend this book as the perfect companion to 'What is Narrative therapy: An easy-to-read introduction' by Alice Morgan.
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Narrative work and the metaphor of 'home'
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Katie Howells
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This paper explores how homes – both as physical places and as metaphors – can be taken up in narrative therapy practice. The author first explores various meanings that people attribute to the concept of ‘home’, and then outlines some options for the relevance of the home metaphor to various maps of narrative practice.
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'Narrativising' a vocal tic: The use of narrative therapy in the ridding of 'Mr Squeeky'
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Miguel Fernandez
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Using the narrative therapy approach of externalising the problem, the author interviewed a ubiquitous vocal tic, called Mr Squeeky, that had afflicted a nine-year-old girl for more than two weeks. Within a week after the first session, more than 90% of the tic had disappeared, with the remaining expressions of it extinguished by the beginning of the third session. At the third session, the tic was brought into the session in an airtight container labelled ‘Squeeky lives here’.
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New Voices
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This journal issue consists of papers from authors never previously published who are doing innovative work. The first paper, by Anne Kathrine Løge from Norway, introduces an approach to working with divorced parents to ‘disarm the conflict’ and assist them in developing skills of collaboration in relation to parenting their children. The second piece, by Ron Nasim from Israel, describes innovative group work in a psychiatric day clinic. The second section of the journal consists of two papers about ways of working with queer folk from religious backgrounds. The third part of this edition features the hopeful work of two organisations, one Israeli, one Palestinian, which are dedicated to finding a way out of the cycles of violence in that part of the world. Finally, the focus turns to Africa, and more particularly to Rwanda. It is now almost thirteen years since the genocide took place in Rwanda. We think readers will be moved to hear of the work of organisations which are supporting survivors and continuing to seek justice.
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No turning back: Make to female transgender journeys of getting through tough times
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Aya Okumura
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Female-to-male transgendered people face many challenges during their journeys of gender transition. These challenges can be all the more complex if transgendered people are simultaneously negotiating complexities of culture as well as gender. But along with these challenges also come celebrations, connections, and community. This paper describes the stories of five Asian and Pacific Islander transgendered women, and offers some questions which narrative practitioners may find useful to help trace the histories of transgender people’s skills and knowledges in moving through their unique journeys.
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Novel practices: Reading Groups and Narrative Ideas
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Jane Polkinghorne
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This paper describes the ways in which the author has been engaging with narrative practies in relation to talking about reading - both in a reading group and in her work as a therapist.
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Once upon a time ...
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Alice Morgan
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'I would like to share two stories with you that are precious to me. The purpose of sharing them is to reflect on them and the contribution they make to my work. Thinking about them reminds me to always stay in a position of curiosity and to never presume I know the answers. They remind me of the importance of consulting children about their lives and the delight I experience working with narrative approaches. Their stories taught me so much about children’s knowledges and abilities...'
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Opening the door of return
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James Amemasor
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This interview with James Anani Amemasor took place in Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. Cape Coast Castle is one of the key fortresses used by the English for the purpose of slavery. Cheryl White, Makungu Akinyela and David Denborough were the interviewers.
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Opening up a crack: An account of narrative practice in the context of pastoral therapy
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Kim Barker
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This paper explores some of the possibilities and challenges of therapeutic conversations with people who hold strong religious beliefs and/or find themselves under the influence of oppressive religious discourse. With particular reference to one woman’s therapy journey, it shows how the articulation and deconstruction of one’s ‘belief story’, in the absence of any prescriptive or proscriptive constraints, can render visible various possible entry points into alternative storylines.
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Outsider-witness practices and group supervision
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Hugh Fox, Cathy Tench, and Marie
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This paper describes the work of a ‘narrative supervision group’ organised and run in Sheffield, UK. It conveys how the work of supervision reached out of the room in which the group met and touched the lives of the people who were at the centre of the discussions. In doing so, this paper illustrates a possible model for the use of outsider-witness practices in group supervision.
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Outsider-witness practices in developing community with women who have experienced child sexual abuse
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Michelle Fraser
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The West Street Centre is a community-based service for women and young people who have experienced child sexual assault. As a feminist service we are interested in addressing the issue of child sexual assault in forums beyond the therapy room and therapeutic group programs. As such, we have been committed to finding ways to strengthen the community of women who use our service, as well as the women who work to respond to this issue in the community. Narrative outsider witness practices and a number of other key feminist community development ideas have provided a foundation for the organisation of two community forum days over the last two years. This paper describes these community days and the thinking that informed them.
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Overcoming overwhelming
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Ross Hernandez
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This paper explores ways to richly describe parents’ skills and knowledges in dealing with problems that threaten to overwhelm their lives, especially in the context of raising children with significant challenges. The narrative practices of externalising conversations, tracing values, outsider-witness conversations, and therapeutic letters and documents were used with parents facing various problems.
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Packing your bags for school
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Alice Morgan
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'The story outlined below reminds me of what becomes possible when I resist the temptation to rush into finding solutions to children’s problems. It reminds me that ‘wandering in the maze’ is an integral part of the process of working respectfully and a privilege as for a short time I am invited into the world-view of children...'
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Parent-teen conflict dissolution
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Ninetta Tavano
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This paper describes how Michael White’s ‘conflict dissolution map’ can be used with parents and adolescents to assist in ‘dissolving’ conflict in narrative therapy sessions. The author explains how the practice of ‘repositioning’ is combined with definitional ceremony and outsider-witness practices to create conversations that allow family members to re-engage in ways that are based on acceptance, care, and respect.
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Personal Books as therapeutic documents
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Fiona Hamilton
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After keeping a journal for many years, wondering what exactly they represent to her, Fiona Hamilton decided that they were, in fact, a sanctuary; A place where she can be herself. In her adult years, becoming more aware of narrative therapy ideas and practices, and how valuable these journals have been to her, Fiona began to think of ways to incorporate personalized books into the therapeutic process. In this paper, Fiona explores ways of developing personalized books with those who have been subjected to difficult times.
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Perspectives on teaching family therapy from the Bouverie Centre
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Amaryll Perlesz et al.
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The Bouverie Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne runs the longest established family therapy teaching program in Australia. ‘Bouverie’, as it is known, is highly regarded for its innovative teaching program, as well as its work in relation to HIV/AIDS, mental health, sexual abuse, acquired brain injury, and with homophobia in schools. This paper describes some of the current issues being faced and grappled with in therapy training programs both in Australia and elsewhere.
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Power and partnership?: Challenging the sexual construction of schooling
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David Denborough
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This paper explores various themes of the sexual construction of schooling, including sexuality, heterosexual dominance, and the possibilities of partnership.
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'Power over violence' group: Working with young men in a justice setting
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Karen Duncan et al.
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This paper documents a 10-week project working with young men as part of a violent offenders program, using narrative therapy ideas.
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Practice Notes: Introducing Narrative Ways of Working
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Alice Morgan
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In this paper Alice Morgan describes an exercise used in a training group at Dulwich Centre during narrative therapy training courses. The idea behind the exercise is to introduce the course to narrative ways of working. Here, Alice shares not only the exercise, but some of the participants’ responses, and how they have contributed to ongoing deconstruction of some educational practices. This piece will be relevant to those teaching narrative ideas and practices, or those new narrative therapy.
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Prisons and the question of forgiveness
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David Denborough
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During my years of working within prisons, I met with many men who had committed what I consider to be horrific crimes – callous, violent, cruel acts. I also met many lovely men brutalised by generational poverty, racism and/or ill-treatment. What was almost uniformly common was that no-one was talking about any sense of regret they may have felt about the crimes that had led to their incarceration. No-one. This paper asks why.
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Privileging insider-knowledges in the world of autism
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Coutney Olinger
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With the rising number of diagnoses of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), more families are impacted. Unfortunately, discourses surrounding ASD often present limited views and ways of working with these families. Using narrative practices, insider-knowledges can be privileged and guide professionals.
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Putting an end to secrecy: Therapy with mothers and children following disclosure of child sexual assault
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Lesley Laing and Amanda Kamsler
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This influential paper describes therapy with mothers and their children following an intrafamilial child sexual assault. Although looking more specifically at the offender being a parental figure, it also addresses the possibility of such situations occurring when the offender is a non-family member who is in a position of trust. The focus of the paper is ongoing therapy rather than crisis intervention.
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Queer counselling & narrative practice
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David Denborough (ed)
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The writings in this book represent a small part of a broader transformation that is occurring within the health professions. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- and bi-gendered experience is disrupting the very assumptions upon which these professions are built. The boundaries of nuclear family life are dissolving and the taken-for-granted is being replaced with the unexpected. The papers in this book describe some of the dilemmas, challenges and joys that this is making possible. It also includes detailed descriptions of narrative practice.
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Queer Lives and Spiritual Leanings: Gay men talking about how we stayed connected, or got re-connected, to spiritual practices and religious values under challenging circumstances
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Charles Jasper
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How do queer people stay connected or get reconnected to spiritual practices and values when the religious communities they grew up may have been powerfully rejecting of gay, lesbian or queer lives? This paper includes the stories of a number of gay men who grew up in Christian communities and describes their journeys in relation to matters of spirituality. The author also provides a framework that could be used to structure similar explorations with lesbian, bisexual, transgender or other queer folk.
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Questions of agency: Explorations of the meanings of sexual coercion, gender, and participation in group sessions
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Bodil Pedersen
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The view that participating in psychosocial support groups can be helpful to women exposed to gendered violence such as rape and attempted rape, has much support. Drawing on a ‘subject theory’ approach and an empirical project, this article discusses some aspects of group practices. Which aspects of participation in groups may be helpful and which problematic? And what may we learn from working with groups? The discussion takes in such general questions as the position of professional counsellors and other participants, pathologisation, and the possible transfer of experience from one context to another, as well as more specific aspects of the meanings of victimisation, gender, sexualised coercion, and group participation.
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Raising our heads above the clouds: The use of narrative practices to motivate social action and economic development
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Caleb Wakhungu and the Mt Elgon Self-Help Project
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Poverty, conflict, and disease are like ‘clouds’ that encircle our communities. We must find ways to raise our heads above the clouds and work towards the world we hope for …
This publication documents an emerging field of practice: narrative 'development' work. The Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project, based in rural Uganda, uses narrative practices to spark and sustain local social action and environmental and economic projects.
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Re-Authoring Lives: Interviews and Essays
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Michael White
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This book is a collection of inspiring interviews and essays. You will especially appreciate this book if you are: looking for hope and new visions in your work with people who are considered to have chronic problems; interested in literature and would like to find ways to express this in your work; developing ideas for consulting with people who have survived abuse; conscious of issues of power and want to make your practice more accountable to the people who seek your help; interested in recent developments in social theory and their implications for practice; and/or wanting to work collaboratively with others in the generation of new possibilities for their lives.
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Reclaiming culture and community
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Jesus Tovar
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This paper explores work in schools with Latino young people, including using peer interviews and externalizing covnersations.
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Reclaiming our stories, reclaiming our lives - responding to Aboriginal deaths in custody
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This publication outlines a report of a counselling project initiated by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia. This counselling project implemented one of the recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
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Reconstructing life journeys: Group work with young women who experience mental illness
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Little Lit Siu-wai
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This article describes creative work with a group of young women who have been suffering from mental illness for several years. The work conveyed here builds upon the metaphor of a journey of life and adapts this to a Hong Kong context.
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Reflecting-team work as definitional ceremony
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Michael White
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This paper introduces the definitional ceremony structures of narrative therapy. Keywords: reflecting teams, outsider witness, definitional ceremony, post-structuralism, audience, Barbara Myerhoff
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Reflections across time and space: Using voice recordings to facilitate 'long-distance' definitional ceremonies
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Ross Hernandez
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This paper describes the author’s attempts to employ the definitional ceremony map of narrative therapy in contexts where outsider witnesses cannot be physically present. This was achieved through the use of a voice recorder, with the various stages of tellings and re-tellings being recorded and played for the outsider witnesses and clients, bringing about a ‘long-distance’ definitional ceremony which spans a gap in time and space.
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Remembering Meg
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Anne Stringer with Chris, Angie, Jess, & Julia
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This paper describes how a group of young women, in conversation with their school counsellor, found ways to remember and honour the mother of one of their close friends. The paper has been written collaboratively between the school counsellor and the young women involved. It is shared here in the hope that it may offer something to other young women and to other school counsellors.
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Re-membering reciprocal relationships
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Chris Dolman
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Re-membering conversations are one of the key maps of narrative therapy practice. Chris Dolman's article explores some interrelationships between re-membering conversations and the principles of Just Therapy, along with the other narrative practices of ‘the absent but implicit’ and regarding distress as testimony, enquiring about personal agency, and naming injustice. It is then followed by a reflection by Barbara Wingard.
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Remembrance: Women and grief project
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Dulwich Centre
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This article documents the initial stage of Dulwich Centre’s Women and Grief Project, a project based on narrative practice to collect stories, skills, and knowledge of women responding to grief and loss. The article includes a list of narratively informed questions for women to reflect on their experiences of grief and loss, and a heartfelt response to these by a Palestinian woman, as well as responses to her writing by other women. The article also explores the complexities of grief in the context of violence, abuse, or other ‘fraught’ aspects of relationships, as well as socially-unsanctioned forms of grief.
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'Rescuing the said from the saying it': Living documentation in narrative therapy
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David Newman
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This article explores some creative ideas about using therapeutic documents in narrative practice. After a discussion of the theoretical background, important principles, and ethical issues in employing documents, the author gives examples of emails used to recruit a ‘care team’, and keeping care teams informed of developments in people’s lives. The main part of the paper explores the idea of ‘living documents’: therapeutic documents that are added to by various clients over time. This new departure in therapeutic documents is different from the existing practices of ‘archives’ held by various leagues – which tend to simply be collections of different individual’s documents; and of collective documents, which are usually produced by a group in a collective voice.
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Researching people's experience of narrative therapy: Acknowledging the contribution of the 'client' to what works in counselling conversations
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Amanda Redstone
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This paper explores the possibility of developing a way of evaluating narrative therapy conversations that acknowledges clients’ contribution to ‘what works’ in counselling conversations, and at the same time contributes to further rich description of clients’ preferred stories of identity.
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Resisting normativity: Queer musings on politics, identity, and the performance of therapy
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Julie Tilsen & Dave Nylund
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What are some of the hazards of the modern gay rights movement? The authors propose that in attempting to secure ‘equal’ rights in various aspects of public and private life – for example, marriage, military service, and health insurance – modern gay rights engages in ‘homonormativity’ which seeks to limit the options for queer people by having them replicate aspects of mainstream, neoliberal, heterosexual lifestyles. Instead of this approach, the authors propose a ‘queer utopia’ based on ideas of sexual freedom and honouring diversity.
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Responding to men's violence
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Nancy Gray
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In their work with men who have enacted violence against their partners, a team of workers at New Start, in Halifax, Canada, draws upon the metaphor of ‘migration of identity’ to assist men to move away from violence and domination and towards different forms of masculinity. In this thoughtful and reflective two-part interview, Nancy Gray describes some of the key ideas that inform their work. The first part of the interview conveys how the migration of identity map and the re-authoring conversations map can be put to work with men who are violent. It also conveys some of the unexpected discoveries that emerge as a result. The interviewer was David Denborough.
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Responding to Trauma: Part One
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Since the events of September 11th in the USA, the field of ‘trauma work’ has grown exponentially. This increased interest in these matters seems to offer many possibilities as well as a range of hazards! There is so much to consider. The papers included here describe hopeful and creative work in responding to trauma. These include papers from Sri Lanka in relation to the tsunami, Australia, Israel, Uganda, Burundi, East Congo and Gaza (Palestinian Territories). We’ve also included two papers relating to work with children, one from Bangladesh and one from Australia.
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