Cognitive Narrative Psychotherapy

  We build reality when we relate to others through language. The process of knowing is inherent in us. How we are is how we tell ourselves we are. This is the art of narrating life. Gonçalves claims that cognitive-narrative psychotherapy seeks to optimize the way in which we narrate ourselves. Just as physics has focused on finding all the elements that constitute the essence of matter (such as atoms, protons, and neutrons), psychology has sought to answer questions such as what constitutes behavior. Are emotions the essential element? Or, is it thoughts? Cognitive narrative psychotherapy claims it’s everything: behavior,…