International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
2024 Issue two
This issue is a compelling offering of peer-reviewed articles, audio recordings, videos, reviews and multimedia. There is a diversity of themes that sparkle with everyday acts of resistance, a call for epistemic justice and communities as sites of healing.
For the first time, we are publishing a peer-reviewed paper in two languages – Spanish and English. There are also videos from mainland China and Nepal, an audio note from a Hong Konger now living in the UK, and a photo essay from Armenia. It’s an exquisitely diverse collection and all free to access and share.
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Peer-Reviewed Papers
We exist and resist as woven patches: Collective narrative practices in an activist context challenging and responding to an anti-lesbian hate crime — Yasna Mancilla Monsalve
This article describes a participatory process in which a group of feminist, lesbian feminist and dissident activists came together to respond therapeutically to the impacts
Existimos y resistimos como retazos u nidos: Prácticas narrativas colectivas en contexto activista: Desafíos y respu estas frente a u n crimen por lesbo-odio — Yasna Mancilla Monsalve
Este artículo ilustra un proceso de trabajo metafórico y participativo en el cual un grupo de activistas feministas, lesbo-feministas y disidentes nos reunimos para responder
Delusions: Seeking epistemic justice for the most unusual of stories — Hamilton Kennedy
The label of delusion can be so powerful that people so labelled are no longer believed or supported in preferred ways by those around them.
When grief arrives — Anne-lise Ah-Fat
When Grief Arrives is a narrative therapy and oral history project aimed at re-storying narratives of grief and loss within queer, trans and Black, Indigenous
We are a spider’s web: Friendship in times of mental health crisis — Frankie Hanman-Siegersma
Community responses to those experiencing mental health crisis and distress are important. However, in Australia and many other colonised countries, responses to distress have become
The Read Everything Michael White Published Project — Will Sherwin
This paper tells the history of The Read Everything Michael White Published Project, in which I read all the works available to me that were
Body as a picture book — Paul Graham
This article introduces a tool for narrative therapy conversations with young people using tattoos as a point of entry. It is inspired by trauma-informed tattooing
Response to “Body as A Picture Book: A tool for narrative conversations inspired by tattoos” by Paul Graham — Jacob Tumanako
Jacob Tumanako works with young people, families and communities intersecting with the criminal justice system. He is also a Māori man with tattoos or tā
Re-authoring identity conclusions in borderline personality disorder — Alicia Bruzek
This paper describes the use of narrative therapy with people who had been given a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. In a context of significant
Response to “Re-authoring identity conclusions in borderline personality disorder” — Tiffany Sostar
Tiffany Sostar is a narrative therapist and community worker living on Treaty 7 land (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada), and is part of the BPD Superpowers
Reviews
Reframing trauma through social justice, edited by Catrina Brown — Manja Visschedijk
Manja Visschedijk reviews Catrina Brown’s (2024) edited collection Reframing trauma through social justice: Resisting the politics of mainstream trauma discourse.
Trans bodies, trans selves, edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth — Tiffany Sostar
Trans bodies, trans selves: A resource by and for transgender communities, edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth (2nd edition), Reviewed by Tiffany Sostar
Featured Videos
使用神兽隐喻进行叙事实践 在中国文化背景中 Using traditional Chinese mythical animals — Wenjia Li
Metaphors invite imagination and suggest possibilities for developing multiple stories in narrative practice. Using familiar elements of the local culture as metaphors can contribute to
The Story Kitchen: Igniting and building courage for justice in Nepal with women survivors of armed conflict — Jaya Luintel
The Story Kitchen in Nepal is applying the tools of collective narrative practice to ensure that women who have been subjected to sexual violence during
Audio
Poststructuralism and therapy: what’s it all about — Leonie Simmons
In this audio recording of a favourite paper from the journal’s archives, a team from Dulwich Centre, coordinated by Leonie Simmons, offers answers to frequently
Wai lo gatherings: Documenting continuing connection among people from Hong Kong — Jack Chiu
To emigrate is a tough decision. Many people who move to a new country face what can feel like overwhelming challenges. We can find it
Multimedia
“Still standing”: Armenian revivalism and narrative practice – a story of a unique initiative — Ani Margaryan, Sara Portnoy and Heghine Poghosyan
Having faced wars, genocide, dispossession and natural disaster, the Armenian people have a long history of finding ways to survive, drawing on history and spiritual
