Narrative therapy holds that people are not their problems — problems are separate from persons, named and examined from the outside. The stories we inhabit about ourselves are not objective accounts but constructions, and they can be reconstructed with different emphasis, different authors, different plots. The Sutras' project of identifying with the witness rather than with any particular stream of content is structurally similar: loosening the mind's grip on a fixed self-story is the beginning of freedom.
Patan