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Narrative Couples Therapy: Understanding People's Identity
Narrative couples therapy is a particular way of understanding people's identities. This therapy sees people's problems separate and assumes that they have many skills, abilities, competencies, beliefs, values and commitments that help change the relationship with the partner, in life or with others. From a relational point of view, stories are considered to be a central part of our understanding of how therapist work. That is why it is called narrative. During therapeutic conversations, it is a matter of listening and searching for clues about knowledge and skills that go into the history saturated with problems. Often to be discovered are what begin as little trails to subordinate stories of intentions, hopes, commitments, values, desires

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