title: The Cocreation of Crazy Patchworks: Becoming Rhizomatic in Systemic Therapy.
abstract: In the field of systemic therapy, there has been much discussion recently about the narrative self. This concept refers to the idea that the self is narratively constructed in and through the stories which someone tells about him/herself. The story is thereby not only viewed as a metaphor for selfhood: Selfhood is not compared to a story, it is a story. But what kind of story are we talking about here? If the self is a story, what does that story look like? These questions are explored in this article. Starting from the possibilities and limitations of traditional and postmodern visions on the self as a story, an alternative vision is illustrated. By considering the self as a rhizomatic story, we not only create a useful view of the way narrative selfhood is constructed within a therapy context, but we also stimulate therapists to coconstruct-together with their clients-patchworks of self-stories. By using story fragments of our own practice, we illustrate the rhizomatic thinking and its possibilities in therapy.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Brussels Free University (VUB), Research Group IDNS-VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jasmina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sermijn
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Brussels Free University (VUB), Research Group IDNS-VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Gerrit
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loots
mesh_terms: D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062525:Narrative Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010684:Philosophy; D011361:Professional Competence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013850:Thinking
keywords: Coconstruction of Selfhood; Narrative Therapy; Rhizomatic Thinking; co-construcción de la individualidad; pensamiento rizomático; terapia narrativa; 共同创建自我 ; 叙述心理治理; 多极化思考