Making Room for Narrative Practices in Mental Health: Taking Care with the Scaffolding-Plumbing Metaphor
Topoi May 3, 2026 Daniel D. Hutto, Benedetta Cogo
Abstract Narrative practices appear to matter to psychological well-being, yet dominant frameworks generally sideline narrative practices in mental health contexts, treating them, at best, as marginal. We argue that if we are to give narrative practices their due in mental health contexts, we must set aside certain misleading imaginative frames that dominate our thinking in this domain. To...