2005: Issue 1 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Try to Put Yourselves in Our Skin: The Experience of Wardies and Homies— Leonie Sheedy

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:38:11 +0000

This paper describes some of the experiences, skills and knowledge of ‘Wardies’ and ‘Homies’ – former state wards, foster children and those who grew up in Children’s Homes and orphanages. It also invites social workers and other health professionals to come to terms with the history of these professions.

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Conversations about Inadvertent Disempowering Practices— William Madsen

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:21:40 +0000

This short piece describes an exercise developed to assist workers to examine inadvertent disempowering professional practices that may have negative effects on the people who consult them. The exercise also explores ways of talking with colleagues about these practices.

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Was It a Girl — or Was It a Boy?— Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:19:29 +0000

This short paper seeks to ask questions about sex and gender identity. It was originally offered as a keynote at the 6th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Examining Discourse When Talking with Women— Shona Russell

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:17:14 +0000

This paper discusses the ongoing responsibility we have as therapists for opening spaces to examine cultural and social conditions that can easily remain invisible.

The author asks: ‘How can I step outside my own ideology and question it’, and ‘What steps can I take to expand the range of discourses which are brought into therapeutic conversations?’ A postmodern feminist orientation is discussed as a way to examine and explore the dominant discourses which are powerfully shaping of identity. Through the story of Rosanna’s life we see how these explorations are linked with re-authoring conversations.

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Getting it Out There: Young Women Take a Stand Against Sexual Violence— Cindy Gowen and Stephanie Paravicini

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:15:05 +0000

‘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. It is also a story of the ways in narrative practices that were engaged with by two counsellors to assist these young women in telling and re-telling their stories.

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The Power of Healing in the Yarns: Working with Aboriginal Men— Larry Maxwell Towney

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:12:43 +0000

‘The power of healing in yarn’ is an approach to conversations with Indigenous Australian men that involves the use of certain narrative practices in culturally appropriate ways. This paper, by Larry Towney, was initially delivered as a part of a keynote session at Dulwich Centre’s 2nd International Summer School of Narrative Practice, in Adelaide in November 2004.

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Unexpected Conversations — Some Reflections on Talking with Men— Mark Gordon

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:10:42 +0000

Conversations with men can lead to unexpected destinations. Narrative practices that enable counsellors to listen for what it is that men value, that explore meaningful relationships, and that avoid shaming or belittling, can result in creative conversational adventures. This paper, by Mark Gordon, was initially delivered as a part of a keynote session at Dulwich Centre’s 2nd International Summer School of Narrative Practice, in Adelaide in November 2004.

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Good Answers to Bad Invitations— Pam Burr Smith

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:08:33 +0000

This article describes an exercise used with groups in a psychiatric hospital setting. It involves the use of humour and novel ways of inviting externalised conversations.

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Healing, Politics and Community Action— Nacho Maldonaldo

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:06:34 +0000

This paper traces some of the histories that have shaped the author’s understandings of the role of psychiatry and family therapy, and discusses some of the key current issues in the field, most notably domestic violence. This paper was originally delivered as a keynote address in Oaxaca, Mexico, at the 6th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference.

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Introducing Narrative Psychiatry: Narrative Approaches to Initial Psychiatric Consultations— SuEllen Hamkins

Dulwich — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:04:29 +0000

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.

Initial psychiatric consultations are conceptualised as re-authoring conversations in which questions that generate experience and gather information assist in the development of a history of resistance to the problem. Examples of co-research and letter-writing are also offered. The paper ends with a reflection from Virginia Slaughter whose conversations with the author about experiences of depression are offered as examples of this work.

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