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Podcast: Towers of Babel
Episode: Interview: Harry Rieckelman
Description: Harry Rieckelman is a psychotherapist who lives and works in Bethesda, Maryland. He’s also the founder of the Institute for Narrative Therapy. I wanted to talk with Harry for three reasons:* I’m fascinated by narrative therapy, which is an attempt to understand human personality and human identity as narrative, as a story. That essentially we are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.* Harry once told me that “a good story is better than a bad story, but no story is better than a good story.” Which is certainly a counter-intuitive thing for...