ABSTRACT
sychoanalytic clinicians are no strangers to incomplete narrative: to stories assembled from the bits and pieces of our patients’ unreliable and unsystematic reports about their lives. We take what we can get, gather the details, and together with the patient, construct a more coherent and, hopefully, a more liberating narrative. We know we never have the whole picture—we’re always connecting the dots, making constellations, it might be said, from only the most visible stars.
