to write stories, letters, essays or poems and to recall actual events in which they vanquished a concern or responded to a family member with cathartic satisfaction.A practitioner of narrative therapy, Dr. Gene Combs, an associate professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Loyola University in Chicago, said Mr. [Michael] White emphasized the need to "elevate the person you're working with, instead of elevating the therapist," so that discussions with patients, alone or in family groups, can ensure that individuals are not viewed as "generic carriers of problems, or only as pathologies and not people."
from The New York Times: Michael White, 59, Dies; Used Stories as Therapy
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