n CME : Your SA Journal of CPD - More about : narrative therapy

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Extracted from text ... MORE ABOUT MORE ABOUT....MENTAL HEALTH IN THE COMMUNITY HUgO THEROn, MSc (Clin Psych), MSc (Health Psych) Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice DEOn BRUwER, BA, MTh (Clin Past), DTh Special Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University Ben Okri, master storyteller and respected literary scholar, believes that people are 'as healthy...as the stories they tell themselves'. He asserts that it is through the 'stories we tell ourselves and others that we live the life, hide from it, harmonise it, canalise it, have a relationship with it, shape it, accept it, are broken by it, or flow with life'. Without stories one's ..