ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a clinical setting, and shows the promise of qualitative inquiry for engaging in spaces. It discusses narrative therapists who are encouraged to listen to and share the stories from their own lives and the lives of others that have been evoked by clients' stories, believing that the powerful evocations that one person's stories can evoke in another are sufficiently therapeutic events. The chapter discusses mapping the ghosts and residual traces that have been left behind, seeping into the walls of rooms that have held psychotherapeutic conversations. It explores the politics of taking inquiry into the outside' world, into the spaces of advocacy, to form coalitions. The chapter presents conversation between Jane and Sue went on with Freud interrupting Jane's attention to her client from the book shelves and Gracie interjecting via letters and memories, both were submerged into the lives' of the speakers. It addresses racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare.
