Confiding

In Confiding Susan Baur relates her lively, unconventional approach to therapy and expounds on an urgent theme introduced in The Dinosaur Man: how the stories we believe about ourselves shape our lives. She discusses how these stories provide us with our identities and influence our future, and how the stories people tell their therapists have a profound effect on their treatment. It is her belief that an individual's road to health lies in working out a new story with a therapist willing to leave the beaten track in search of an imaginative alternative. Baur alternates heartrending incidents…