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This article attempts to study how narration could be applied as a therapeutic process for the writer. Indeed, we postulate that devising an autobiographical narrative could have therapeutic virtues where, through a process of self-construction, it opens up a window to our personal emotions. Once this crucial stage has been covered, a possible metamorphosis of the traumatism through the word and writing may be envisaged. The article goes on to survey storytelling techniques that serve this symbolic and liberating objective, through analysis of the work by Herve Bazin, Grasping the Viper. The author affords an insight into the possibility of utilising narrative techniques as a therapeutic perspective that could facilitate access to a resilience process.