Choosing a Frame: How Medusa Tells the Story of Trauma and Life After Trauma

This paper names the elements of Medusa myth that make it an uncanny allegory for trauma and examines role choice—both having choice offering choice—in treatment trauma. It considers two perspectives on myth: (1) as a captive object to hero in (2) autobiographer, narrator her own story, subject working establish more control over experience. translates social work space. When clinical worker acts listener/observer patient narrator/autobiographer, is uniquely positioned support reclaiming life after