Therapeutic uses of storytelling : an interdisciplinary approach to narration as therapy / edited by Camilla Asplund Ingemark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingemark, Camilla Asplund, 1974- editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative therapy.

Narrative Therapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Narrative Therapy--methods.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, [2013]

Summary:

How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh conditions, now or in the past? Can storytelling help us sort out our innermost feelings and troubles? This deeply human subject is relevant not only to practitioners of psychotherapy, but to all of us, as we sometimes go through difficult times in life. In Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling, a cross-disciplinary group of researchers examine the ways in which narrative might aid in coping with difficult situations in life, and with the emotions that these situations engender. Starting with an introduction to basic narrative theories and the therapeutic effects of storytelling, the book then moves on to a series of lucid case studies. The authors present a diversity of material such as blogs, poetry, magazines, memoirs, and oral accounts from Antiquity to the present. Authors from several different disciplines make for a diversity of perspectives. The authors specialise in folkloristics, psychology, writing studies, poetry therapy, and classical studies. Psychologists, social workers, researchers, therapists - all can benefit from this book, including everyone interested in the possibility of inner exploration through stories. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Key Themes in the Study of the Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling / Camilla Asplund Ingemark Ingemark, Camilla Asplund 7

Identity and Therapeutic Narrative

2 Narrative Identity and Psychotherapy / Donald E. Polkinghorne Polkinghorne, Donald E. 21

3 From Single to Double Stories of Identity / Geir Lundby Lundby, Geir 43

4 You Should Say Such Things that Mobile Phones Will Fall Storytelling as a Personal Contact between Teller and Listener / Moon Meier Meier, Moon 63

Coping With the Past and the Present

5 More than Scapegoaung The Therapeutic Potential of Stories of Child-Killing Demons in Ancient Greece and Rome / Camilla Asplund Ingemark Ingemark, Camilla Asplund, Dominic Ingemark Ingemark, Dominic 75

6 Dealing with Emotions / Sofie Strandén-Backa Strandén-Backa, Sofie 85

7 Constructing Personal Historical Agency, Making Sense of the Past? / Andreas McKeough McKeough, Andreas 101

8 The Finnish Yellow Press as a Therapeutic Channel / Tuija Saarinen Saarinen, Tuija 115

9 Negotiating Terror, Negotiating Love Commemorative Convergence in Norway after the Terrorist Attack on 22 July 2011 / Kyrre Kverndokk Kverndokk, Kyrre 133

Narrative and Therapeutic Methods

10 Narrative Encounters in End-of-Life Care / Piret Paal Paal, Piret 159

11 The Power of Communal Writing: The Possibilities of Poetry Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia / Karoliina Käbmi Käbmi, Karoliina 179

12 Depression and Expression in Blog Diaries / Risto Niemi-Pynttäri Niemi-Pynttäri, Risto 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9187351153

9789187351150

OCLC:

871191799

Publisher Number:

99963346346