2008: Issue 3 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Externalising Questions: A Micro-analytic Look at Their Use in Narrative Therapy— Tom Strong

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:25:35 +0000

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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Questions of Agency: Explorations of the Meanings of Sexualised Coercion, Gender, and Participation in Group Sessions— Bodil Pedersen

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:23:30 +0000

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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Spreading the News: Coping Tricks from the Sickle Cell Clinic!— Sarah Lunn

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:21:11 +0000

This paper describes how the narrative practice of ‘spreading the news’ was used with a group of children with Sickle Cell Disease and their families. A ‘day out’ was organised for all who attended a hospital paediatric clinic for Sickle Cell Disease. This day provided the opportunity for all to share and celebrate their unique knowledges and successes in living well alongside the disease. The narrative steps taken to enable this project are documented as the author describes her experiences and learnings from this day.

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Reflections across Time and Space: Using Voice Recordings to Facilitate ‘Long-distance’ Definitional Ceremonies— Ross Hernandez

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:16:09 +0000

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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‘Rescuing the Said from the Saying of It’: Living Documentation in Narrative Therapy— David Newman

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:10:50 +0000

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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Using the ‘Failure Conversations Map’ with Couples Experiencing Fertility Problems— Razi Shachar

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:08:31 +0000

This paper details work done with a heterosexual couple who were experiencing fertility problems. Drawing on the externalising conversations and failure conversations maps of narrative practice, the author worked with the couple to explore culturally-dominant norms around pregnancy and fertility, resulting in renewed options for parenthood. The paper discusses aspects of Michel Foucault’s notion of modern power in relation to normalising judgement, and details how the failure conversations map offers a response to this.

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Addressing Sex in Narrative Therapy: Talking with Heterosexual Couples about Sex, Bodies, and Relationships— Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer & Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky

Dulwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:06:14 +0000

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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