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Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy
Editors: Tom Stone Carlson, Sanni Paljakka, marcela polanco, and David Epston
Associate Editors: Kimberly S. Rodríguez Jiménez and Sydney Yang
Foreword: Dear Reader
Welcome to this special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy
written by colleagues at DISPUK—Danish Institute for Supervision, Teaching,
Organizational and Individual Counseling and Therapy—in Denmark.
We are honored and thrilled to share with you some of our work around
documentation and letter writing. Before we set off, we would like to thank David
Epston and Tom Stone Carlson for inviting us to do this special issue.
The issue began with a question David posed to Camilla Schjørring about writing
an article and soon grew into an enthusiastic exchange of ideas at DISPUK, with
seven of us ultimately contributing to this issue.
And it has been fun. Not just because it gave us an opportunity to work together
on this project, but because we are all fascinated by the effects documenting and
writing have had on our work over the years.
And because we love language! This powerful tool we hold has the strength to
create, form, and re-form stories. We love that humans found a way to preserve
language. We learned to write. Socrates was a bit concerned about the effects of
the written language. He worried that it might fail our memory, because the
written language, once it is written, parts from the experience floats around not
as memory, but only as reminders of what we have experienced. We tend to
agree. The written language fails to capture the nuances of a memory.
So how come we love to write? We love to write because writing is also creation.
Writing is an opening opportunity. When we write, we create images, stories,
identities, thoughts, even emotions. And every creation holds the power to affect
the world. This can be scary, but it also provides hope. We can participate in
Foreword: Dear Reader
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, October 2026 Special Release, p. 1-4
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