ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines brief work with a woman who experienced anxiety states as a result of “feeling absent from her voice. It describes relevant information so that we could decide together what kind of relief or treatment might be necessary. The chapter discusses the principles which guided our search for pertinent issues. It draws some core themes to the fore. Though not necessarily explicitly didactic, stories thus provide the teller/ listener pair with a basis to confront a perspective on a specific life theme and to try out a particular position in relation to such a perspective. The chapter attempts to comprehend how intentional states, such as desiring, intending, believing, longing, grasping a meaning, manifest themselves in a troubled person’s life. As such the act of telling and listening to a story also expresses the various ways in which our life is constituted through dynamics between these various domains.
