Healing Stories: Narrative in Psychiatry and PsychotherapyGlenn Roberts, Jeremy Holmes At the heart of any therapeutic encounter there is always a story. Patients seeking help bring with them stories, spoken or untold, fragmentary and whole, that collectively make up their own personal narrative, their lived autobiography. Whatever else their tasks, a central part of the doctor's or therapist's job is to facilitate the telling of these stories, to make meaning out of them and find the patterns within them. The aim of this book is to rehabilitate stories and story telling within medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy and to consider a narrative approach both as a theoretical paradigm and a practical, therapeutic tool. |
Contents
The psychodynamic narrative | 27 |
an attachment | 49 |
Middles | 67 |
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