Healing Stories---Narrative in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

Healing Stories—Narrative in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Edited byglenn roberts and jeremy holmes. (Pp 226, £47.50). Published by Oxford University, Oxford, 1999 ISBN 0-19-262827-5. Evolutionary biologists would probably tell us that the enchantment of stories is due to survival having been dependent on the passing of oral culture from one generation to the next. Information put in narrative form not only delights, but is easily recalled. Stories also construct meaning by interweaving observation, inference, motive, and consequence in a …