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Shall we go down the rabbit hole?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
Jalal-ad-Din Rumi
I have presented in this paper a few accounts of conversations with the
internalised-other to show how this form of interaction creates a different – and
special – connection between a person and his/her own story. However, it is
important to point out that this is only one moment in the therapeutic process. As
it has been mentioned, we spent some time “panning for gold” (Wylie, 1994) as
some important aspects of the alternative story came along in earlier sessions.
Each one of them needed to rest and wait for the questions that would invite
them to take part in a storyline. As Pablo Neruda (1973) put it poetically:
If each day falls
inside each night,
there exists a well
where clarity is imprisoned.
We need to sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
That is what we do: we ‘fish’ those narratives that bring light and life to the
alternative story.
Narractivating Conversations with the Internalised-Other: A Therapy with a Little Bit of Fairy Dust.
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, December 2025 Release, p. 45-65.
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