ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the therapy process as primarily a place to see family mythology in development where plots can shift, endings can be changed and new characters introduced. It also reviews that mythmaking in families is seen as an evolutionary process which serves both homeostatic and morphogenic functions, where roles, self-images, shared historical experience and views of the world outside their family are all defined. Ways to examine mythmaking include the various symbols, stories and rituals which the family holds. Storytelling was a technique in which meaning could spiral back and forth between families of origin and this family, the therapy team and the two generations within the nuclear family. Storytelling in this kind of situation can work on several levels. The author got started on storytelling by talking with Rachel and Matthew about how his daughter was so intrigued by stories about his early life.
