2004•Mental Health PracticeRequires access
Beyond empowerment: revering the story teller
Phil Barker, Poppy Buchanan‐Barker
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Abstract
In telling his or her life’s story a person in mental distress provides the mental health professional with a wealth of evidence which can be used to help the person on a journey to recovery. But, as Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker explain, such evidence is often discounted and the person’s story obscured by a continued reliance on the diagnostic story