Transformations: a blueprint for narrative changes in therapy

Abstract

Problematic/symptomatic behaviors are embedded, retained and maintained in collective stories. Therapy is the transformative process by which patients/families and therapists co-generate qualitative changes in those stories. An emphasis on narratives allows to further specify--at the more "micro" level of the exchanges that take place throughout the consultation--how those transformations unfold. To that specification is devote the core of the essay, which closes with a discussion of some clinical, research and, especially, research potentials of this systematization.