ABSTRACT
Our shared writing practice may have started with Irvin Yalom, but it hasn't ended there. While Yalom was ahead of his time and a trailblazer in many respects – not just the writing he did with and to his clients – we used his powerful accounts as a jumping off point and have taken our work in some further directions. One of these is experimenting with the form the co-writings have taken. Another is the willingness to change our tools of engagement throughout our therapeutic relationship, and now since it has ended. What might we still have to say given that we are no longer in therapy? What right do we have to suggest that other clients and therapists should do these practices, given that ultimately it (not caused, but) coincided with the end of our long-term therapy? What ethical considerations are there in using collaborative writing therapeutically? Perhaps most importantly, how can this kind of writing continue to expand and inform our individual therapeutic journeys going forward?
