| Description |
1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Series |
Explorations in Narrative Psych Ser |
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Explorations in Narrative Psych Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Narratives and Mental Health: An Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Researching Narratives and Mental Health -- 1. Imagining an Alternate Psychology -- 2. I Have Many Sick Hearts: Stories About Illness and Life -- 3. Narrative Practices in Mental Health: Narrative Therapy and the Fictive Stance -- Part II: Current Narrative Practices in Psychology and Psychotherapy -- 4. The Art of Teaching the Art of Listening: An Interview Study with University Teachers in Clinical Psychology and Social Work |
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5. The Aftermath of Silencing the Trauma: A Narrative Case Study -- 6. Writing as Narrative Resource in Therapeutic Settings: Diaries, Sketches, Notes -- 7. What Constitutes Mad Behavior? Changes in the Grand Narrative of Disorder Delineated in Psychiatric Diagnoses Between 1832 and 1980 -- Part III: Narratives of Aging, Dementia, and Depression -- 8. How to Narrate a Healthy Life: Life Stories and Mental Health in Interviews with the Elderly Aged 90+ -- 9. Narrative Ethics and Dementia: Critical Comments and Modifications |
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10. Narrative Experiments with Medical Categorization and Normalization in B. S. Johnson's House Mother Normal -- 11. Mental Illness Representations in the German Mass Media: The Case of Depression -- Part IV: Mental Health, Life Storying, Trauma, and Artistic Expression -- 12. Narrating Shame in Contemporary Mental Distress Memoirs by Female British Authors -- 13. Psychic Relief and Nonnarrative Configurations in Graphic Memoirs About Mental Health -- 14. Memory Is a Strange Thing: Science Fiction, Trauma, and Time in Arrival -- Index |
| Summary |
This book foregrounds the importance of narrative as a conceptual paradigm for understanding mental health issues, presenting stories as an alternative source of knowledge and expression. At the same time, the volume acknowledges potential limitations of narrative paradigms, especially when these are coupled with normative expectations of truthfulness, coherence, and comprehensiveness |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Narrative therapy.
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Psychotherapy and literature.
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Narrative therapy
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Psychotherapy and literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Punzi, Elisabeth
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Singer, Christoph
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| ISBN |
9780197620564 |
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0197620566 |
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