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Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy
Editors: Tom Stone Carlson, Sanni Paljakka, marcela polanco, and David Epston
Associate Editor: Kimberly S. Rodríguez Jiménez
Editors’ Note
We are pleased to announce the December 2025 release of the Journal of
Contemporary Narrative Therapy. This issue brings together the work of
practitioners whose writing emerges directly from practice—work shaped
through close engagement with narrative ideas, ethical commitments, and lived
therapeutic encounters.
A distinguishing feature of this release is that each of the featured authors
participated in the Apprenticeship in Contemporary Narrative Therapy with David
Epston, Kay Ingamells, and Tom Carlson. The articles reflect the apprenticeship’s
pedagogy: learning narrative practice from the inside out, through careful
witnessing, co-research, and sustained attention to the effects of our words.
In “An Apprenticeship in Extremis,” Jo Viljoen offers a powerful, longitudinal
account of therapeutic co-research conducted under conditions of profound risk.
This article documents the emergence of narrative practice through lived urgency,
ethical steadfastness, and collective witnessing.
In “Narractivating Conversations with the Internalised-Other: A Therapy with a
Little Bit of Fairy Dust,” Adriana Müller explores innovative practices for engaging
internalised others, demonstrating how imagination, playfulness, and rigor can
coexist in deeply respectful therapeutic work. A Portuguese companion piece,
“Narrativando Conversas com o Outro Internalizado,” extends this contribution
to a broader linguistic and cultural readership.
Finally, “In the Company of Awkwardness: Counter-storying Toughness in
Therapy,” by Mauricio P. Yabar, examines moments of discomfort and
uncertainty as fertile sites for counter-storying, offering clinicians a nuanced
account of how awkwardness can become an ally rather than an obstacle.
Editors’ Note
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, December 2025 Release
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