Healing plots : the narrative basis of psychotherapy / edited by Amia Lieblich, Dan P. McAdams, and Ruthellen Josselson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lieblich, Amia, 1939-

McAdams, Dan P.

Josselson, Ruthellen.

Series:

Narrative study of lives

The narrative study of lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Storytelling.

Narrative therapy.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 27 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2004]

Summary:

In this book, psychologists analyze highly personalized life narratives to understand significant turning points in the human life course and answer this central question: How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? Among the transitions examined are adolescent identity struggles, the move from school to work, divorce, turning points in moral development, setbacks in professional careers, the onset of illness, recovery from addiction, and dramatic epiphanies and conversions in life involving crime, confession, and redemption. Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other scholars will find Turns in the Road an invaluable and insightful guide to human development. In this volume, chapter authors successfully challenge readers to think about narrative research in its own context while also maintaining original, personal voices that underscore the value this field places on an individual's communication of his or her experience. By revealing their struggles with qualitative research's emerging and evolving processes and their experiences working with students at various educational levels, these authors subtly, but effectively, arm teachers with tools that anticipate common pitfalls and frustrations. At the same time, the authors relate professional triumphs that illustrate effective teaching -- and doing -- of narrative research.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Significance of Narrative and Storytelling in Postpsychological Counseling and Psychotherapy / John McLeod 11

Chapter 2. Demonic and Tragic Narratives in Psychotherapy / Nahi Alon, Haim Omer 29

Chapter 3. The Paradigm of Tragedy as Meta-Narrative: A Window to Understanding the Life Story of a Woman in Economic and Social Deprivation / Michal Krumer-Nevo 49

Chapter 4. Between Abstract Individualism and Gendered Lives: Negotiating Abused Women's Agency and Identity in Therapy / Suvi Keskinen 67

Chapter 5. Echoes of Silence: Remembering and Repeating Childhood Trauma / Lynn Sorsoli 89

Chapter 6. On Becoming the Narrator of One's Own Life / Ruthellen Josselson 111

Chapter 7. Living to Tell the Tale: Redemption Narratives, Shame Management, and Offender Rehabilitation / Shadd Maruna, Derek Ramsden 129

Chapter 8. The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Approach to Relational Narratives: Interpersonal Themes in the Context of Intergenerational Communication of Trauma / Hadas Wiseman, Jacques P. Barber 151

Chapter 9. The Place of Psychotherapy in the Life Stories of Women in Households Without Men / Amia Lieblich 171

Chapter 10. A Love Story: Self-Defining Memories in Couples Therapy / Jefferson A. Singer 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1591471001

OCLC:

52930048