... of their daily lives. The emphasis in therapy is on findingways of behaving that will enable patients, for example, better fitting in, participating in various social activities, and enacting ... roles withinthe social context of their community. For instance, patients are trained and encouraged to admit to being flustered or wrong, while makingrequests, initiating contact, and being firm ... healing rituals (establishing diagnosis, prescrib-ing pills, performing surgery), embedded in a shared outlook(‘‘science’’), construing the living organism as a machine and inadequate functioning...