A study how patients and practitioners transform ordinary clinical interchange into a story-line.

1. Finding narrative in clinical practice; 2. The mimetic question; 3. The checkers game: clinical actions in quest of a narrative; 4. Therapeutic plots; 5. The self in narrative suspense: therapeutic plots and life plots; 6. Some moments are more narrative than others; 7. Therapeutic plots, healing rituals, and the creation of significant experience.