Therapeutic acts of witness: why writing poetry and prose has never been just for patients

摘要

Humans are storytellers. Fisher argues that members of our species are predisposed to attend more to the logic ofstories than to the disembodied syllogisms of formal logic. We make sense of our experiences by placing them in the form of a story, and we share our stories in the service of collective sense-making. As the authors and editors of our life stories, we can organise the endless flow of information,conversation and observation in ways that explain the behaviour of others, illuminate moments of tension and drama and often reshape ourselves as the protagonist, if not the hero.