The Talking Cure (Volume I) is a doctor's personal and professional story to find a way to navigate through the complexities of life. This book is his personal discovery of the importance of relationships to create a cure process on the emotional, personal, and medical levels. Dr. Archie Johnson spent his entire professional life searching for real answers to the hard questions for hurting people. His book is the wonderful breakthrough that places relationship at the center of the cure process - for all personal and emotional struggles facing people today. Join him as he portrays his narrative and scientific model as the basis for creating a cure process - through interaction, reconstructed in the context of the relational turn. A paradigm shift is required to understand and apply the tools of relationship to recreate a cure process in the lives of people - for all psychiatric and the medical problems people battle with today.