JCNT Archive

JCNT  March 2025

P. 1   Editors' Note

P. 2   Narrative Therapy News and Training Opportunities

Versión en Español

P. 5   Ortodoxia Narrativa y Poder Hegemónico: Una Perspectiva Evolutiva de Jeff Zimmerman

P. 25  Pranas Chile: ¿Cómo Hacemos lo que Hacemos? de Ítalo Latorre-Gentoso

P. 53 Conversaciones Centradas en la Dignidad, la Seguridad y el Cuidado con Personas que Usan Drogas de Nitsán Pérets
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English Version

P. 62   Pranas Chile: How do we do What we do? by Ítalo Latorre-Gentoso

P. 89   Conversations Focused on the Dignity, Safety, and Care with People Who Use Drugs by Nitsán Pérets

​JCNT  December 2024

P. 1   Editor’s Note

P. 2   Narrative Therapy News and Training Opportunities

P. 4   Voices are Nourished by Fear by Christoffer Haugaard & Laura

P. 31 Respecting Voices: A Report on a Co-research Project Concerning Voice Hearing by Christoffer Haugaard

​JCNT  October 2024

P. 1   Editor’s Note

P. 2   Narrative Therapy Training Opportunities

P. 3   Wayfaring: An Apprenticeship in Narrative Enquiry by Frances Hancock & David Epston

P. 25 Becoming Skilful: A Conversation 'Within' an Apprenticeship in Narrative Enquiry by Frances Hancock & David Epston

P. 49 Re-engaging with 'the Person is not the Problem, the Problem is the Problem': Neoliberalism, Narrative Therapy, and 
         Relationship Counselling by Michael Edwards
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​JCNT  July 2024

P. 1 Editor’s Note

P. 2 Addressing Bullying in the Classroom: Undercover Anti-Bullying Teams by Mike Williams

P. 28 What if we Could Multiply Levels of Compassion by 8,… Could That Make a Difference in the World? by Marie-Nathalie
         Beaudoin

P. 39 Reimagining Narrative Therapy by Pierre Blanc-Sahnoun
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​JCNT  May 2024

P. 1 Editors’ Note: Remembering Victoria Dickerson by David Epston
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P. 3 Vicki, a Remembrance by Kaethe Weingarten

P. 6 A Narrative Origin and Conversion Experience: A Story of Connections by Victoria C. Dickerson

​​JCNT  February 2024

P. 1 Editors’ Note
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Versão Portuguesa

P. 2  Terapia Narrative no Brasil: Construindo História Preferidas de Norte a Sul by Marilene Grandesso

P. 14 Os Maus e os Bons Fantasmas: Uma História de Reautoria em Terapia Narrativa com Criança by Adriana Bellodi Cosa               César

​P. 38 Jardinando Narrativas e Escrevivendo Histórias by Adriana Müller

​P.60 O Nevoeiro e o Girassol: Ampliando os Horizontes Narrativos Frente à Perda Traumática de um Filho by Ana Luiza de                Faro Novis​
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English Version
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P. 76 Narrative Therapy in Brazil: Building Preferred Stories from North to South by Marilene Grandesso

P. 87 The Bad and the Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children by Adriana Bellodi Cosa César
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P. 111 Gardening Narratives and Storyliving One's Life by Adriana Müller

P. 133 The Mist and the Sunflower: Expanding Narrative Horizons in the Face of the Traumatic Loss of a Child by Ana Luiza de               Faro Novis
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​JCNT  September 2023

P. 1.    Editor's Note

P. 2.    The ring in the well: Psychosis as a crisis of identity by Christoffer Haugaard, Ava, and David Epston

p. 23.  Breaking the frame: Aesthetic encounters with narrative practices- Part One by Lucy Merrill Cotter
 
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​JCNT May 2023
 
P. 1     Editor’s note
 
P. 2     Narrative Orthodoxy and Hegemonic Power: An Evolutionary Perspective by Jeff Zimmerman
 
P. 20   Katja-writing: Being author and audience to fictionalized stories of trauma by Christoffer Haugaard
 
P. 69   Painting the bigger picture… Putting the quality in qualitative research by Helen Böhme
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​JCNT February 2023
 
P. 1     Editor’s note
 
P. 2     A story illustrating Narrative Therapy in a cross-cultural conversation with someone approaching death (revised) by                       Sasha McAllum Pilkington
 
P. 18   Professional Autobiography by Jeff Zimmerman
 
P. 37   Review of “Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding shame through innovative Narrative Therapy” by Dale             Johns
 
P. 41   Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations: A co-created book of true stories and helpful guidelines by Nina Tejs                     Jørring, MD
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​JCNT July 2022

p. 1.    Editor's Note

p. 3.    Wrapped in Care: Narrative Therapy in the Time of Covid by Kay Ingamells

p. 27.  Deciding How to Die: Narrative Therapy in Palliative Care with Someone Considering Stopping Dialysis by Sasha
​           McAllum Pilkington

p. 62.  Commentary on Sasha McAllum Pilkington's Deciding How to Die: What's Right for Finn by Arthur W. Frank

p. 69.   My Autobiography with Narrative Therapy by Colin Sanders
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​JCNT April 2022

p. 1.    Editor's Note

p. 2.    Moral Character, Moral Genres, and the Moral Representation of Others by David Epston

p. 38.  Coming to Know Young People as Promising Characters by David Epston

p. 56.  Did we get it all wrong? by marcela polanco


​JCNT December 2021

p. 1.    Editor's Note

p. 2.    Honoring and Privileging Therapists’ Personal Experience and Knowledges: Ideas for a Narrative Therapy Approach to
​           the Training and Supervision of New Therapists by Tom Stone Carlson and Martin Erickson (Reprint)
 
P. 19   Narrative Supervision as a Counter Story Development by Danna Carter
 
P. 33   Walking hope-lit paths to new doorways: A letter about my experience as an apprentice in narrative therapy by Bevan                                          
P. 40   This Girl is on Fire: A Feminist Narrative Supervision Story by Sanni Paljakka


​JCNT August 2021

p. 1     Editor's Note by David Epston

p. 6.    Christina and the Robin: A Decidedly Narrative Response to Rape by Sanni Paljakka

p. 32   On the Pedagogy of Poetics by Sanni Paljakka, Sarah Green, Tara Luhtanen, Chelsey Morton, Tiffany Saxton,                             Larissa Szlavik, and Crys Vincent
 
p. 55   Narrative Therapy in the “Imaginative-Agentive Gap” Or: Imagined into Agency: Goth Lolita Comes to Life by                                 Chelsey Morton

p. 70   “A Tender Letter I Was Not Prepared For:” Therapeutic Documents During Client Transfers by Crys Vincent

p. 85   The Woman Who Made a Home for her Sister: A Re-membering Witnessing Transcript by Larissa Szlavik


​JCNT June 2021

P. 1     Editor’s Note by David Epston
 
P.3      Demonstrating Kindness to Magical Beings: Alice’s Story by Christoffer Haugaard
 
P. 36   Rose and the Whispering Voices by Christoffer Haugaard
 
P. 70   Trish and a Frustrated Voice by Christoffer Haugaard

JCNT May 2021

p. 1     Editor's Note

p. 2.    Inspiring Believed-in-Hope as an Ethical Position: Vicarious Resistance & Justice-Doing by Vikki Reynolds, Riel Dupuis-               Rossi & Travis Heath

p. 19.  Mattering as the Heart of Health and Human Services by William Madsen, Beth Root, and Nina Tejs Jørring

p. 32.  On Ferocious and Gentle Correspondence Between a Rebel Woman and Worry by Chelsey Morton


JCNT Release March 2021

p. 1     Editor's Note

p. 3     Secret Passages to Gardens: Doorways to Territories of Justice and Healing by Tiffany Saxton

p. 4     The Practice of Love in Palliative Care by Susan Crozier

p. 20   The Politics of Saying Hullo Again by Helene Grau Kristensen

p. 38   Healing Conversations: Giving Value to the Life of a Person who Died by Suicide by Linda Moxley-Haegert, co-                                 written with Mandy and Brian

p. 58   Narrative Therapy with Someone Experiencing Significant Loss and Grief: An Illustration with Reflections on                                 Practice by Sasha McAllum Pilkington


​JCNT Release December 2020

p. 1    Editor's Note

p. 3    Spoken Word Publication- A hope for intimate liberation: Activism in the therapy room by Sacha Médiné

p. 4    Internalized Other Questioning with Couples: The New Zealand Version by David Epston

p. 15  Toward a Theory of Relational Accountability in Intimate Relationships- Tom Stone Carlson and Amanda Haire

p. 43  “Love is Not Dead, Not Yet:” Couple’s Therapy For Times of Unlove- Intimate Witnessing in Narrative Couple’s Therapy
          by Sanni Paljakka and Tom Stone Carlson


​JCNT Release September 2020

p. 1     Editor's Note

p. 2.    Spoken Word Publication- Adorning Black Bodies: Race Narrative Therapy in Black Hair Care Spaces by Afiya
​           Mbilishaka, Ph.D.

p. 4.    What’s So Narrative About Narrative Therapy? by Sanni Paljakka, M.Sc.

p. 25.   How Michael White Came Up with the Idea of Externalization: An Educated Guess by David Epston
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​JCNT Release July 2020

p. 1     Editor's Note

p. 2     Spoken Word Publication- On Fugitive Planning, Solidarity, and Co-Struggle: Towards an Abolitionist Narrative Therapy 
           by Dr. Travis Heath

p. 4.    On the Necessity of Adventure: Toward a Contemporary Narrative Therapy by David Epston


JCNT April Release 2020- Special Release on Insider Witnessing Practices

p.  1     Introduction by David Epston

p. 6      Who is the Outsider in Insider and Outsider Witnessing Practices? by Tom Stone Carlson           

p. 16    What is a Good Story and How do we Tell One? by Tom Stone Carlson

p. 38    Questions for Preparing for an Insider Witnessing Interview by Sanni Paljakka & Tom Stone Carlson

​p. 47    On Lions, Fish, Birds, and Other Moral Characters or: What is a Counterstory and What Does it Counter? by Sanni         
            Paljakka & Zhen Zheng
 
p. 85    The View from the Top of the World by Tiffany Saxton
 
p. 102   “Render the Tacit Tangible” Or: How Insider Witnessing Practices Address Power by Raising the Means to Speak by
             Sanni Paljakka & Malidi Hause
           
p. 136  Insider Witnessing Practices as a Two-Way Account of Therapy: A Gift Exchange by Loree Stout
 
p. 152  Observations on the real effects of Insider Witnessing In our clients’ words by Sanni Paljakka, Tiffany Saxton, Loree Stout, & Tom Stone Carlson
 
p. 166  Insider Witnessing Practices, Trauma, and Neuro-Affectional Reauthoring by Jeff Zimmerman & Tom Stone Carlson
 
p. 206  The coming together of the LA Insider Witnessing Team by Larry Zucker, Michelle Chong, & the LA Team
 
p. 221  Norway IWP Team- Andreas Breden & Julie
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​JNFT Decemeber 2019- Special French Release

p. 1  ​ Narrative Francophone Countries by Catherine Mengelle

p. 9   Toward an Epistomology of Equity: The Fair Trade of Narrative Minds Across Boundaries of Language by David Epston

p. 18  Enchanting our Practices: A Narrative Approach with Children by Charlie Crettenand

p. 29  Little Steps Toward Letting the Legacy Live: Fine Traces of Life to Accompany Families Grieving the Death of a Child by Linda Moxley-Haegert & Carlin Moxley-Haegert

​p. 55  Telling another Possible Story: A Conversation with Dina Scherrer by Dina Scherrer & David Epston
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​JNFT April 2019 Release

​p. 1    Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and mystery for the maverick in the age of branding by David Epston 

p. 19  Respectful letters for aggressive voices: Max’s story by Christoffer Haugaard & Max

p. 38  Sitting through it with the voices: Victoria’s story by Christoffer Haugaard & Victoria

p. 56  The road to co-research by Christoffer Haugaard 

p. 62  Have we seen the last chapter in narrative and therapy? Redux by Marko Turner
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​JNFT Release 1, 2019- Part Two Special Release on Co-Research

​p. 1    A brief welcome to Part Two on Co-Research 

p. 2    Exposing perfectionism: Part one of a co-research story conversation by Victoria, Chloe, Lona, & David Epston

p. 18  Exposing perfectionism: Part two of a co-research story conversation by Victoria, Chloe, Lona, & David Epston

​p. 40  A forward and backward look on co-research by Victoria Marsden


​JNFT Release 4, 2018- Part One Special Release on Co-Research

p. 1    A friendly invitation to this Special Release on Co-Research by David Epston 

p. 5    Converting moral outrage to moral stamina: A co-research conversation between Julie King and David Epston

p. 18  Conviction you can reclaim: A co-research approach to re-voicing the wisdom of hindsight

p. 33  Judy’s testimony (aged 30), Circa 1994, Auckland, New Zealand

p. 36  Her name was pain: A poem by Sophie 
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​JNFT Special Release- Therapeutic Documents

p. 1   Introduction by David Epston about this Special Release

p. 4    My Romance with Narrative Letters: Counter-storying Through Letter Writing by Kay Ingamells

p. 20  Writing Narrative Therapeutic Letters: Gathering, Recording and Performing Lost Stories by Sasha Pilkington

p. 49  A House of Good Words: A prologue to the practice of writing poems as therapeutic documents by Sanni Paljakka


JNFT Release 1- 2018

p. 1    Editor's Note

p. 2    In Pursuit of Goodness: Dignity and Moral Character in Narrative Therapy by David Epston

p. 27  Politics of Knowledge by David Marsten, David Epston, and Lisa Johnson

p. 46  A fair-trade translation of David Epston in Tokyo: Reminiscing about the vision-clouding typhoon by Sumie Ishikawa​
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​JNFT Release 2- 2017

p. 1   Editors' Notes

p. 3   Notes on Socio-narratology and Narrative Therapy by Arthur Frank

p. 20  Lessons From Lucy: Reunion Questions, Creating Time Portals, and Helping People Witness Themselves in Narrative Therapy by Heath, T., Rowan Ramsey, L.R., Ocampo-Gomez, F. (2017).

p. 35  Miranda Returns by Miranda Brown & Tom Carlson
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