Necessary Fictions: Therapy as the Critique of Stories

Course overview

We are creatures who need to understand, at any cost. And so we story our experiences, and those stories, provisional, localized, and often created at an early stage of our history, become defining narratives. The disarray of our histories nevertheless can be a powerful clue to the meta-stories to which we have been in service for many years. Therapy can be understood as the identification of and critical analysis of our operative or meta-stories. Until these narrative interpretations can be smoked out, we remain their captive. In a series of questions, we will be invited to examine the stories we have been serving, and then engage stories that honor what wants to unfold from within us.