Seeing, Thinking, Acting Different: Wittgenstein"s Language Games and Bateson"s News of Difference in Therapeutic Narratives

Ever since R.Rorty published The Linguistic Turn in 1967,
the study of narrative has acquired new consideration. For
postmodern philosopher J-F. Lyotard the very advances of
science are seen "as anything more than a narrative and
not one that can override all others� (Lyotard, 1984, 16).
In the last two decades the attention of scholars has
focused upon the ability of narrative of modelling our
concepts of legitimacy and reality (Bruner, 2002, 124). The
dimension of narrative and that of narrating about oneself
is not only what constitutes our peculiar way of being
humans, but the privilege means by which we make order
in our lives and experiences and this also emphasizes the
therapeutic side of narration.