Introducing Narrative Psychology / Edition 1

by Michele L. Crossley

Overview

This introductory textbook presents a coherent overview of the theory, methodology and potential application of narrative psychological approaches. It compares narrative psychology with other social constructionist approaches and argues that the experience of self only takes on meaning through specific linguistic, historical and social structures. The author shows how the choice of one narrative over another - for example arising out of dominant narrative structures of power and control - can have serious social and psychological implications for the construction of images of self, responsibility, blame and morality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335202904
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Michele Crossley is a Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Dentistry at the University of Manchester. She is author of Healing Sylvia: Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Construction of Identity (nee Davies, Taylor and Francis, 1995) and Critical Approaches to Health Psychology (Open University Press, forthcoming). She has published extensively in international journals in relation to the psychological and emotional aspects of traumatising events.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface Explanatory note on further reading

/f002Section One: Theories and methods

Theories of self and identity Discursive methods and the study of the self Narrative living and being in time

/f002Section Two: Applying methods

Preface to section two Doing a narrative analysis Analysis and writing up the project

/f002Section Three: Contemporary applications

Preface to section three Surviving childhood sexual abuse Terminal illness living with a long-term HIV positive diagnosis Contemporary ways of making meaning Concluding synopsis Bibliography Index.