therapeutic fiction genre

• fictions are mental constructs, fantasies by means of which we fashion or “fiction” (fingere) a life or a person into a case history

• Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth

• therapy is the theme on which the narrative incidents are hung together … provides the means for focusing and selecting incidents, like a political novel choosing politically relevant events. And usually, the end of the story leads out of therapy into cure and world

• Although the listener shapes the tale into the therapeutic genre, the condition of the teller – that which makes him a hospital patient – plays a large part in the form of the tale, especially its stylistics.

• healthy and unhealthy work of art

linked mentions for "therapeutic fiction genre":

1. philosophy in interpretative symbolic fiction
   His people not merely live, but they live in thought. One can see them from myriad points of view. They are suggestive. There is soul in them and
   
2. sophisticated therapeutic class
   The sophisticated “therapeutic class” who come to private therapy have their stories already formed into the therapeutic genre, that is, the story