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Co-Evolving Meaning with Narrative Therapy: Practices That Preserve Hope and
Dignity at the End of Life
Sasha McAllum Pilkington1
Abstract
The following narrative therapy teaching story focuses on therapeutic
conversations I had with a man who was living with cancer and in the last weeks
of his life. Although he had only a short time to live, he told me he was on