Exegesis The spoken word piece that follows is from a “withness” sense of us all having mental health, not just those we work with. It is raw, disturbing and provocative. A living assemblage of words, rhythms, sounds, beats, feelings and thoughts that stir. A jigsaw of personal and professional contextual living in and habitation of different and similar landscapes, hxstories and environments. This piece resonates with the near and far, steps and breaths, in settings, books, home and abroad. Relational contexts are performed from inside/outside and outside/inside knowledges. The poem was written in one sitting late in 2022. The rawness of the grammar in places and words combine and create this piece in which a rhythm is created on living substances, a heartbeat, a drum, an urge and whispers.
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Writings from 2007 In 2007, I had “one of those years”. Many dreadful things happened. I hear myself think, “It could have been worse”. Nevertheless, it was a challenging year for me. And doing work which is all about supporting others with their struggles, their work, their learning was sometimes tough, frequently moving. I was aware of how I was drawing on the experiences of clients and trainees and other people I had met who had faced serious illness or death. Despite my commitment to limit imbalance of power in therapy, the experience of loss and illness created a sense of levelling that I had not anticipated. I chose to “come out” from behind that generic version of me as therapist, trainer, researcher and reveal more to people than I was used to. I’m not entirely sure how much I made a choice to do that but I did try to manage things in a professional manner. Whatever that means. Four particular conversational clusters stood out for me that took place during that year. I wrote them at the time but I see that I have written them in the past tense. I think I needed to. Put them in the past. I was, in some ways, still in shock so writing in the past tense helped me create a timeline to locate me in another time zone known as The Present. It was a better place to be and one from which I could create another perspective.
{"title":"On being a therapist, a tutor, a researcher and just another community member","authors":"G. Simon","doi":"10.28963/6.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Writings from 2007\u0000In 2007, I had “one of those years”. Many dreadful things happened. I hear myself think, “It could have been worse”. Nevertheless, it was a challenging year for me. And doing work which is all about supporting others with their struggles, their work, their learning was sometimes tough, frequently moving. I was aware of how I was drawing on the experiences of clients and trainees and other people I had met who had faced serious illness or death. Despite my commitment to limit imbalance of power in therapy, the experience of loss and illness created a sense of levelling that I had not anticipated. I chose to “come out” from behind that generic version of me as therapist, trainer, researcher and reveal more to people than I was used to. I’m not entirely sure how much I made a choice to do that but I did try to manage things in a professional manner. Whatever that means.\u0000Four particular conversational clusters stood out for me that took place during that year. I wrote them at the time but I see that I have written them in the past tense. I think I needed to. Put them in the past. I was, in some ways, still in shock so writing in the past tense helped me create a timeline to locate me in another time zone known as The Present. It was a better place to be and one from which I could create another perspective.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128506776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper is a personal testimony, a short account of my experience of suffering from the side effects of covid-19 on underlying heart disease. Writing from within moments of pain and agony, I unfold my inner journey to the void and back. Reflecting on that journey I offer my thoughts, born upon my contact with therapists, doctors, and nurses in the hospitals where I was treated, and my inner dialogue with the voices of many people who have nourished my thinking and practice all these years. Traveling through the unknown conditions of my illness and recovery, who I am and who I am becoming personally and professionally, have been in constant movement and intra-action. From this place I offer some reflections on identity, power and on being a therapist.
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This paper provided the welcome opportunity to write about how I have come to understand and relate to chronic pain. My systemic psychotherapy training and interest in Narrative Practice has strongly influenced my conceptualisation of pain. I have found this useful in my experience of living with chronic pain. I hope the reader is invited to reflect on the many dimensions of pain and illness and the multitude of possibilities for understanding and relating to it. I experience pain as a very significant aspect of my life and my relationships including therapeutic relationships. For this reason, I believe it is important to talk about the therapist’s illness and health conditions in the same way that other aspects of human experiences are talked about.
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If pain could speak, what would it say? If it could have a form, what would it look like? I start with these questions to illustrate the line of inquiry I am reframing as insight. The insights come from a conversation with a therapist warrior battling sickle cell disease (SCD). I use the language of therapist warrior for multiple reasons. To protect the anonymity of my conversational partner; to obscure her name but not her identity or infinite resourcefulness; to work with an archetype in a way that is congruent with the model of engagement I use within our conversations - Internal Family Systems (IFS), (Schwartz, 2013). I work with this model in my therapy practice. I draw on it in this paper to highlight the transformational power of externalising the pain experienced by the therapist I am conversing with. I will offer an overview of the model and an overview of the new language I am introducing in relation to methodology. IFS offers a different lens through which to view pain. Pain can be externalised as a “part”, no longer within the individual. This helps to empower the individual and their experience of pain. In this paper, I seek to highlight the resilience of the therapist I am conversing with and raise awareness of sickle cell disease. The paper actively examines the oppression and racialisation experienced by individuals with SCD from within the health care system. Care is contested. I use “re-lational inter-rogation/intra-rogation”, a methodology I am developing, to examine this. This way of engaging with conversational material highlights the importance of intentionally exploring relational changes after every re-connection or newfound acceptance between and within a group and connecting those insights with wider political forces. I use my embodied reflexivity for witnessing the impact, experiences, and happenings that occur during and after our dialogue. I illuminate my conversational partner’s resilience within the wider discourse of racialisation and marginalisation. Poems are transcribed from the conversation to add to the quality and aesthetics of the paper for the readers, as well as a reflexive process for me during and after my conversation with the therapist warrior. Poetry has a long history as a counter-narrative to the status quo and can be viewed as a decolonial, political act (van Rooyen and d’Abdon, 2020).
如果痛苦会说话，它会说些什么?如果它有一个形式，它会是什么样子?我从这些问题开始，以说明我重新定义为洞察力的探究路线。这些见解来自与一位与镰状细胞病(SCD)作斗争的治疗师的对话。我使用治疗师战士的语言有多种原因。为了保护我谈话对象的匿名性;模糊她的名字，而不是她的身份或无限的机智;以一种与我在对话中使用的参与模式一致的方式与原型一起工作——内部家庭系统(IFS)， (Schwartz, 2013)。我在我的治疗实践中使用这个模型。我在这篇论文中引用了这一点，以强调我正在与之交谈的治疗师所经历的外化痛苦的转变力量。我将提供一个模型的概述，以及我所引入的与方法论相关的新语言的概述。IFS提供了一个观察疼痛的不同视角。疼痛可以外化为“一部分”，不再属于个人。这有助于增强个人的能力和他们对痛苦的体验。在这篇论文中，我试图强调我正在与之交谈的治疗师的韧性，并提高对镰状细胞病的认识。本文积极探讨了压迫和种族化经历的个人与SCD从医疗保健系统内。护理是有争议的。我使用我正在开发的一种方法“关系审问/内部审问”来检验这一点。这种参与对话材料的方式强调了在每次重新联系或在群体之间和内部获得新接受后有意探索关系变化的重要性，并将这些见解与更广泛的政治力量联系起来。我用我的具身反射来见证我们对话期间和之后发生的影响、经历和事件。我阐明了我的对话伙伴在更广泛的种族化和边缘化话语中的韧性。诗歌是从对话中转录出来的，为读者增加了论文的质量和美学，同时也是我在与治疗师战士交谈期间和之后的反思过程。诗歌作为一种对现状的反叙事有着悠久的历史，可以被视为一种非殖民化的政治行为(van Rooyen and d’abdon, 2020)。
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Recently I was invited to write a short paper for Context magazine, a magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK. It is a themed edition, due to be published in the summer of 2023, edited by Joanne Hipplewith who generated the theme of “Failing, to do better” (Context, 187). For me the title speaks to the idea that there is a tension to explore within failure; the tension of present pain and future opportunity that the inclusion of the comma brings into view. I wrote about experiencing the theme as a writing prompt and used the opportunity to reflect on times I have experienced failure in academic contexts and to reflect on the process of writing for publication. For many this can invite anxiety around failure and provoke fear of “getting it wrong”. I explored also the tension between the pain of failure and the hope of learning something useful from the experience (Salter, 2023). A sub-theme emerged in my writing linked to current health status and the recent loss of my father who died from cancer in September 2022. I suppose I was reminded of the invitation to see ill health and end of life as a failure of some kind, that I had been failing in terms of my own health and that my father ultimately had failed to survive cancer. But there were opportunities, even here. My father and I found a way to live with (and for me, live through and beyond) the health challenges we faced and we were able to create space in our relationship to honour each other’s challenges. This was new territory. A new tension.
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This contribution is, in essence, a collection of poems that the two authors wrote over a period of four weeks. The temporal element is interesting. It speaks to a commitment to “go on” (Wittgenstein, 1953) at a time of illness and recovery. Duoethnography, as collaborative activity, invites new meaning by layering what could be seen as separate narratives and creating a dialogue between the evolving stories. This enables new meaning to evolve and intertwine. Undertaking an inquiry through poetry was an important decision. The intention being to provoke and promote creativity, to generate feelings of wellbeing at a time of depleted energy. Writing to and with each other was both an act of generosity and an act of self-preservation. Mutual support, maybe one way to frame it, but it was also outward looking, connecting with how we practice as therapists, how we are in the world, the causes we care about, all part of the awkward dance of living with health challenges. The poems provide their own context in a way but we have wrapped prose around the main body of the paper which is written in stanza. We feel the poetry offers a window into individual, seemingly separate experiences of ill health and a developing shared narrative of “going on”. Through the writing process, it has become clear that the poetry benefitted from the scaffolding of prose, to give the reader greater insight into the structure and sense making process. The language of inquiry speaks to what we learnt/are learning about ourselves through the process, rather than describing a research project with particular anticipated outcomes. The reflections are contained within the poems and expressed through limited words but expansive feeling. Poetic inquiry aims to humanise research with an emphasis on lived experience and researcher reflexivity. In this case the researchers and their research material could be seen as one and the same thing, an “entanglement of matter and meaning” (Barad, 2007, p. 1). But they might also be seen as separated by time and space. Since writing the pieces, new space has developed between illness and life unfolding, life that includes our practices as therapists. And new space has developed between the feelings we experienced at the time, the words we chose to convey them and how we feel now, looking back. Time and space may offer differing lenses, but maybe not. The paper as a whole is an example of writing from within lived experience, written in poetic form. The form supported the authors to write their way through illness and into new territory of living with and beyond life impacting health conditions.
从本质上讲，这篇文章是两位作者在四个星期内写的诗集。时间元素很有趣。它表达了在疾病和康复期间“继续”的承诺(维特根斯坦，1953)。多民族志作为一项合作活动，通过将可以被视为独立叙事的内容分层，并在不断发展的故事之间创造对话，从而赋予了新的意义。这使得新的意义得以发展和交织。通过诗歌进行调查是一个重要的决定。其目的是激发和促进创造力，在精力枯竭的时候产生幸福感。互相写信和互相写信既是一种慷慨的行为，也是一种自我保护的行为。相互支持，可能是一种表达方式，但它也是向外看的，与我们作为治疗师的实践，我们在这个世界上的地位，我们关心的原因，都是与健康挑战共存的尴尬舞蹈的一部分。这些诗在某种程度上提供了它们自己的背景，但我们把散文包裹在论文的主体周围，以节为单位。我们觉得诗歌提供了一个窗口，让我们看到个人的、看似不同的疾病经历，以及一种正在发展的关于“继续”的共同叙述。通过写作过程，很明显诗歌受益于散文的脚手架，让读者更深入地了解结构和意义的形成过程。探究的语言讲述的是我们在这个过程中所学到的/正在学习的关于我们自己的东西，而不是描述一个具有特定预期结果的研究项目。这些反思包含在诗中，用有限的文字表达，但却有广阔的感觉。诗意探究旨在将研究人性化，强调生活经验和研究者的反身性。在这种情况下，研究人员和他们的研究材料可以被视为同一件事，一种“物质和意义的纠缠”(Barad, 2007, p. 1)。但他们也可以被视为被时间和空间分开。自从写了这些文章，新空间在疾病和生活之间发展起来，生活包括我们作为治疗师的实践。在我们当时所经历的感受，我们选择表达这些感受的词语，以及我们现在回想起来的感受之间，出现了新的空间。时间和空间可能会提供不同的视角，但也可能不会。这篇论文作为一个整体是一个从生活经验中写作的例子，以诗歌的形式写作。该表格支持作者通过疾病写作，并进入与影响健康状况的生命一起生活和超越生活的新领域。
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Marilena Karamatsouki, Joanna Michopoulou, L. Salter
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At a recent conference in Lyon, an American researcher declared that we are all traumatised, all of us including counsellors, clients, workers, lawyers, activists. I was taken aback thinking, “wait a moment!” I am not willing to believe that, in the face of struggle and adversity, we are all mentally ill. Counsellors/therapists form part of a community circle responding to violence, harm, betrayal, grief and heartbreak. We are often inspired by our clients, their survivance, their resistance and the ways they signal injustice. The academic presenter was likely influenced by theories of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma - ideas that accuse our clients of hurting us. I wonder to what extent these theories hurt us or get us thinking in ways that are individualising and unhelpful.
{"title":"Burning Bright, Not Out! Therapist Well-Being in the Face of What We Face","authors":"Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao","doi":"10.28963/6.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"At a recent conference in Lyon, an American researcher declared that we are all traumatised, all of us including counsellors, clients, workers, lawyers, activists. I was taken aback thinking, “wait a moment!” I am not willing to believe that, in the face of struggle and adversity, we are all mentally ill. Counsellors/therapists form part of a community circle responding to violence, harm, betrayal, grief and heartbreak. We are often inspired by our clients, their survivance, their resistance and the ways they signal injustice. The academic presenter was likely influenced by theories of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma - ideas that accuse our clients of hurting us. I wonder to what extent these theories hurt us or get us thinking in ways that are individualising and unhelpful. ","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131377115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The subject of therapists facing an illness or living with a health condition that impacts their practice hasn’t been addressed much. In my research I confirmed what I have been noticing in my practice as a systemic therapist: the relational space within myself, my thoughts, emotions, memories and embodied reactions, interconnects with the relational space between client and therapist. My inner voices, what I experience, feel and think (Rober, 2010) affect the way I connect to my clients. This means that when I am fully present with my various selves in the therapy room, more of the client is in there too. Therefore, when I was diagnosed with cancer, I chose to disclose my illness to my clients. In this paper, I discuss my experience with cancer, the way it had an impact on my practice and how I found a way to include the relational space within myself facing an illness in the therapy room. The story that is included in the paper is a story from within practice that appears in my doctoral thesis (Karamatsouki, 2020).
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