Narrative Psychology Identity, Transformation and Ethics
This book provides the first comparative analysis of the three major streams of contemporary narrative psychology as they have been developed in North America, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. Interrogating the historical and cultural conditions in
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JULIA VASSILIEVA
Narrative Psychology
Julia Vassilieva
Narrative Psychology Identity, Transformation and Ethics
Julia Vassilieva Monash University Clayton, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-49194-7 ISBN 978-1-137-49195-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49195-4
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Contents
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Introduction References
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The ‘Narrative Turn’ in Psychology 2.1 The Emergence of Narrative Psychology 2.2 Dan McAdams: Identity as a Life Story 2.3 Hubert Hermans: The Dialogical Self Theory 2.4 Michael White and David Epston: Narrative Therapy 2.5 Narrative Psychology: Limitations, Tensions and Challenges References
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Constructing the Narrative Subject 3.1 The Critique of the Subject and the Challenge of Fragmentation 3.2 Life Story: Identity, Subject and Subjectivity in McAdams’s Approach 3.3 The Dialogical Self Theory: Towards Decentralization
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Narrative Therapy: Between Subjectivation and Agency 3.5 Conclusion References 4
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Narrative Subject: Between Continuity and Transformation 4.1 Stability and Change: Psychological and Narratological Perspectives 4.2 McAdams’s Life Stories and ‘The Making of the Self ’ 4.3 Hermans’s Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement 4.4 White and Epston’s Narrative Therapy: ‘Storying’ and ‘Re-Storying’ Lives 4.5 Conclusion References
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Narrative Methodology 5.1 ‘How Psychology Makes Itself True – or False’ 5.2 ‘Narrative Identity Empiricized’: Pro
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