Summary: Authors like Richard Russo and Anne Tyler tell stories we want to hear because they resonate with our own experience. They give us their best writing and, in return, our best reading recognizes that our own stories affect what we see and hear in the narrative. Dr. David S. Hargrove describes how Bowen family systems theory offers the reader a way to define oneself in relationship to the emotional field of the narrative, which strengthens the self and enhances appreciation of the literature. David S. Hargrove, PhD serves as a member of the faculty at The Bowen Center. This lecture was recorded live at The Bowen Center in Washington, DC on March 17, 2011.
