Narrative and severe mental illness: what place do stories have in an evidence-based world?

Abstract

“Once the patient's biography becomes part of the care, the possibility that therapy will dehumanise the patient, stripping him of what is unique to his illness experience becomes much less likely” (Kleinman, 1988).“The loss of story making and telling has its impact on failure to care for the long term chronic or incurable patient” (Hunter, 1991).