The narrative model in psychopathology and psychotherapy, increasing dynamic since the initial proposal of White and Epston (1990), reaffirms itself as a “discursive” critique of psychopathological diagnosis categories, as well as of cognitive and practical asymmetry within the psychotherapeutical relationship. In this paper, we examine the epistemological foundations of this model, turning to Michel Foucault to examine the symbolic processes inherent to the narrative creation of subjectivity.
Narrative therapy; Michel Foucault; life story; subjectivity