The unsubmitting spirit celebrated in her epigraph as a sign of human strength, she suggests, may not be exactly the same thing as the freedom of the mind described in the final line of the poem […]

[…]For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin?

Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.

Unlike some social constructionists, however, the redecision therapist does not wait for a story to emerge in the therapeutic dialogue, or limit her/himself to suggesting a new story by highlighting exceptions and times when the patient did not follow accustomed patterns, nor does s/he depend primarily on the use of directives. Rather, the redecision therapist guides the therapeutic process but allows the patient to determine the content.