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Sad
And found out the giant was all Rage
Aha!!!
Now we know you!!!
And the smart boy and the artist mother didn't notice...
The Giant of Rage, that was his name, was very intelligent
In a brush step, zas!!!
Changed to Ghost of Fury
What the hell!!!
Ghosts don't need little holes to get into the heads and families of smart
boys and nice moms
Ghosts walk through walls
The smart boy figured out the trick. He found that the ghost goes through
his head
And lo and behold! He knows many tricks to do bad things
He is 1,000 years old.
I recited the chronicle, dramatizing it in such a way that the emphasis fell on the
resources and extraordinary events subjugated by the problem (the boy was a
child; he was smart, thoughtful and observant; the child had an artist mother; the
smart boy and the mother artist took a picture of the giant), as well as the
perverse purposes fueled by the problem (the giant that especially affects the
boy, who is a child; his evils are preferably directed at him; a very intelligent giant,
who magically transforms into a ghost to cross heads).
As an externalizing conversation, listening to your experiences coming from
another person, written in a poetic way, promotes a sense of legitimacy and
centers authorship on the person. Afterward, Daniel said he liked it and thought it
was funny: “He doesn't even look that bad!” He still prefers to maintain his
version of the problem as a ghost that enters his head without making small
The Bad and the Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, February 2024 Release, www.journalnft.com, p. 2446.