"When I decided to write this book, I knew that the only way to share this unique and unparalleled experience was through storytelling. Besides the fact that scientific language is more suitable for communicating ideas and not experiences, psychotherapy is inherently a narrative process."
The narrative process was followed by Haris Kataki, founder and director of the Laboratory of Human Relations Exploration, with extensive and recognized experience in psychotherapy, in order to transform complex issues of personal and family relationships into enjoyable stories.
"The Serpent of God" is a captivating narrative with stories of psychotherapy, a culmination of the author's many years of experience, through which the reader inevitably identifies with the intense descriptions of the lives of therapists and patients.
Using her synthetic systemic therapeutic approach, Haris Kataki intertwines personal life with psychological analysis through everyday family stories. Solutions to the impasses of modern man emerge from the narrative, with skillful therapeutic interventions. Readers realize that they can change their skin and renew their lives, like the serpent of God.
In addition, the author connects the ancient Greek perception of the therapeutic process with the contemporary systemic approach. The first two parts of the book, "The Myth of Ariadne" and "In the Labyrinth," have many similarities to ancient Greek drama and are related to the concepts of catharsis and purification. In the third part, "The Bright Door," the reader follows the protagonists in their descent into the abyss of Hecate, that is, into the inner world of the patient, in the painful but redemptive search for the self.
The book aims, according to the author's confession, to convey the message that all dilemmas, all conflicts, all conflicting perceptions that divide us can be faced and resolved when we are open to building bridges between internal, interpersonal, and scientific divisions.
