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The mixing of words and pictures is more alchemy than science.
Psychoanalysis has a greater need of people who think in images than of learned scholars, scholiasts, and abstract or formalistic thinkers.
In Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon, a medical doctor now renowned for founding the field of narrative medicine asks:
What … is the relation between narrative medicine and psychoanalysis? They are both forms of talking cure; they rest on shared beliefs about the nature of health or well-being; they include interior aspects of patient and professional in the work of healing; and they respect the intersubjective dimensions of healing relationships. But what are the dividends of putting them side by side? (2008, p. 27)