Locating Stories: Trauma, Healing, Decolonising—Willakay, Narrative Practice and the Movements of Location, Dislocation and Relocation
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this paper, I use Location, Dislocation and Relocation (LDR) as a narrative and social constructionist approach from which I explore storytelling and meaning‐making. It describes LDR as a method to enable the reader to familiarise themselves with this narrative construct. It enables the reader through a clinical description to orientate to the process of LDR in the action of clinical endeavour. I then go on to explore my own stories of LDR and to bring different Indigenous understandings to the process, what location is as a place, what stories are and what type of knowing there is. I explore colonisation and acts of resistance we can use to support something other to emerge. In the process, I introduce descriptions of decolonising as a practice and what that looks like in the clinical example I give. The paper concludes with an invitation to continue to use LDR with each other as a form of story that is full of action and intent.
DOI: 10.1002/anzf.70057
Author: Ana Draper
Institution: The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7129093912