The subordinate is then told that the knowledge he or she possesses is not adequate. Thus, for Michael White, the problem stories that people bring to therapy are often attached to unexamined cultural discourses that oppress a person’s agency in claiming his or her own self-knowledge. The goal for narrative therapy then becomes empowering people to reexamine their problem saturated stories so that they are able to eventually re-author or re-story1 their life stories and, through telling and retelling