Matter Matters: Assembling Life after Post-Milan

Abstract

In 2018 I wrote an auto-ethnographic paper about my relationship with Open Dialogue and how it helped me restore my interiority after a commitment of technique-oriented Post-Milan therapy. I attempted to document this as an emergent writing style, inviting you into my own momentary world (ing). This current paper serves as a second assemblage, one that surprised me, revealing itself fully this week, focusing instead on Matter, and how the post-humanist commitment to radically different ‘systems’ has led to new inchoate relations between my body, that of other species and actors. and caused me to associate further into the rhythms of the seasons, both ecological and in the lives of the families I work with as a therapist.