title: Developing the story in psychotherapy.
abstract: Psychotherapeutic work entails many paradoxes. Emphasizing the patient's imagery and deemphasizing theory enhances understanding at the manifest level, the level of hidden themes, and the level of transference-countertransference patterns. A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
authors.affiliation: Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*