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- Title
Narrative therapy in psychedelic harm reduction: Supporting safety, agency and meaning-making.
- Authors
Johns, Blake
- Abstract
Narrative therapy has been absent from the burgeoning body of structuralist literature on the psychedelic renaissance. This paper argues that structuralist approaches limit the application of principles of client empowerment. It demonstrates applications of politicised narrative practices to supporting client safety, agency and meaning-making. Thin pathologising and/or structuralist descriptions of problems were deconstructed, along with the politics of problems and psychedelic contexts. Clients were supported to develop preferred stories and identities through second-story development, and to richly describe intentional states and/or preferred identities. When used in psychedelic harm reduction, narrative therapy can support safety, empowerment and rich meaning-making.
- Subjects
NARRATIVE therapy; HARM reduction; HALLUCINOGENIC drugs; POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
International Journal of Narrative Therapy & Community Work, 2022, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1446-5019
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4320/MCBZ5745