Ulrich Teucher ulrich.teucher@usask.ca is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan. Being a member of the interdisciplinary Program for Culture and Human Development, he studies the epistemological and methodological foundations for work across disciplines and cultures. In his doctoral dissertation in Psychology and Comparative Literature, entitled "Writing the Unspeakable: Metaphor in Cancer Narratives," Teucher established a "Therapeutic Psychopoetics" of metaphor in cancer discourse. Currently, he is recording the life narratives of an Aboriginal family of Musqueam Elders; and studying Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children's oral narratives and metaphors of cancer, and self-knowledge in Aboriginal, Japanese, and British children.