From Client to Co-author -- Developing Outsider-Witness Practices with Adults who Stammer

Jan Logan

Narrative therapy prioritises personal experience by drawing on ‘insider-knowledge’. This paper will demonstrate how narrative ideas and practices can be helpfully transferred to adult stammering therapy. The rationale will be given and the process of developing ‘outsider-witness’ practices (M. White, 1995) described. Involving clients in the process of co-authoring new and preferred identities as people who stammer will be illustrated and the issues discussed. The experience of involvement in this project will be shared from the perspective of client and therapist. Videos will be used.