ABSTRACT
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT When people are stuck within a particular problem situation, behaviour or way of thinking there are, at the minimum, two ways to engage with them. The fi rst, and most usual, is at the level of the content of the problem. This is the storyline or current narrative that the patient uses to explain and make some sense out of what is happening to them. It is not ‘the truth’, merely what they believe to be true about the situation and how they represent that to themselves. Yet as you listen to that story, in depth, it is so easy to become seduced into thinking that that is where the action really lies.
