The story ends, “Boys, no longer boys, exit.” But Moody gets away with a conventional plot by the sheer degree of specificity and rich description he incorporates. In highlighting the tension between conventionality and specificity, Moody reminds us that there are only so many stories to tell. In Therapy, Work From Generic to GenuineSource: Ann H/PexelsA diagnosis is a kind of ultra-generic story. It makes sense, then, that a therapist’s RF score accounts for 70.5 percent of the variance in therapeutic effectiveness; the higher the therapist’s RF, the better the patient outcomes. Like literature, therapy attempts to collapse the boundaries between specific and universal, past and present.