The stories we hear and the stories we tell

Narrative based medicine: stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice.

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We are the stories we tell.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

THINK BACK TO that tragic scene near the end of James Cameron’s Titanic when, after the ship has sunk, Rose clings to some fl otsam. Her lover, Jack, tries to hang on, only to slip away as hypothermia overcomes him. From a cinematic perspective, Cameron’s storytelling skills were particularly powerful: you could almost feel the frigid water enfold you, and you could easily project yourself into...

Models and meanings: Therapist effects and the stories we tell

Two studies, same data set, opposite conclusions. Therapist effects are either vital or virtually nonexistent. Previous research either supports the importance of therapist effects or provides little or no evidence that these effects exist. What kind of science is this? The question the articles in this special section address is an important one for psychotherapy research: Is there major varia...

The Durability of Culture and the Stories We Tell Narrative in Long-term Knowledge Management

Culture, considered both cognitively and socially, is among the most durable of human creations. This applies to individual communities of practice, as much as to larger ethnic or national groups. Consequently, designers of long-term knowledge management [KM] systems should pay close attention to the role of culture in creating, sustaining, and interpreting knowledge. This position paper looks ...