ABSTRACT
Many therapeutic approaches indirectly change plot by altering the context in which the story is told; or by working with the characters to alter their emotions or interactions; or by changing the theme; or by enlarging the life story. Psychoanalysts interpret the problematic ways in which the person relates to the analyst as a way of eliciting an emotional experience of the there-and-now example of how the person relates to important others in both the present and the past. Mark Lawrence was a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who was, of necessity, steeped in psychodynamic theory and the burgeoning and lucrative practice of medicinal treatment for psychiatric disorders. Although Dr. Lawrence considered himself an imagery and ego state therapist, he is included under techniques for changing plot because his basic intervention involved finding the relevant foundational story and changing the plot.
