ABSTRACT
22 23 The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2015) is a collection of email exchanges between novelist J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz, a clinical psychologist currently completing the psychotherapy training program at the Tavistock Clinic. Their correspondence, which began in 2008, concerns matters broadly relating to literature and psychoanalysis, though each narrows their respective fields considerably. Coetzee does so by turning his attention to how fictional narratives are constructed and the relationship this may have to how patients and therapists construct narratives about themselves and each other in analysis, Kurtz by generally adhering to a theoretically orthodox, primarily Freudian view of psychoanalysis.
