Roy Schafer Biography

Roy Schafer (born December 14, 1922 in the Bronx, New York) is an American psychologist and psychoanalyst, who has emphasised a psychoanalytic concept of narrative. For Schafer, an important purpose of the analytic process is that the analysand regains agency of her own story and of her own life. Psychoanalyst and analysand each have a role in telling and retelling the analysand's lifestory: the analyst helps the analysand by elevating subjectivity as awareness of multiple interpretations.