Narrative Therapy: Freedman And Combs

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Freedman and Combs provided a list of theoretical assumptions of narrative therapy that consist of reality is socially constructed. Socially constructed meaning that people become who they are through relationship and their perception are created based on their interactions. As a narrative therapist, the focus of therapy is on the problem and not the cause. The dominant discourses in our society powerfully influence what gets told and how it gets told. Locating problems in discourses help us see people as separate from their

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