Tell Me a Story: The Power of Storytelling
June 21, 2014 by Brad Sachs   
 Filed under Soapbox
“Information brings knowledge, but stories bring wisdom.” These words guide my clinical work more than any others, for I have learned that it is the power of the patient’s story, rather than that of the patient’s dogged data, that defines and informs psychotherapy’s curative properties. Or, as Mark Twain once put it, “Never let the […]

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