Fictive literature has played an outstanding role throughout the human history, affecting directly or indirectly, man's outlook on himself and his surrounding world. In recent decades, the developing affinity between literature and psychology has led many literary critics to study literary works from a psychological perspective. Although psychology and psychoanalysis are usually used interchangeably, careful attention should be paid to the fact that psychoanalysis is only a psychological approach in the same manner that Behaviorism and Cognitive approaches are. Cognitive therapy as an approach based on the cognition therapy seeks the root cause of human dilemmas and contradictions in the individuals’ thoughts and beliefs. In this approach, the patient is taught to learn about his erroneous ideas and beliefs and how to resist them. In cognitive therapy both direct (ABCDE model) and indirect (story telling) methods are used in the reconstruction of cognition. This study is an attempt, from a psychological viewpoint, to shed light on the role story telling plays in cognitive therapy.
