THE GOOD STORY

The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a traini ng in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspecti ves, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story h e or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story of their life. What kind of tru th do th...[Read more]