Narrative psychology : identity, transformation and ethics

Summary: "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 which this important movement in psychology has emerged, the book presents comparisons and critique of the key theories of narrative psychology pioneered across the globe. Examples include Dan McAdams in the US and his followers, who have developed a distinctive approach to self and identity as a life story over the past two decades; in the Netherlands by Hubert Hermans, whose research on the 'dialogical self' has made the University of Nijmegen a centre of narrative psychological research in Europe; and in Australia and New Zealand, where the collaborative efforts of Michael White and David Epston helped to launch the narrative movement in psychotherapy in the late 1980s."

Record details

ISBN: 9781137491947 (Cloth)
ISBN: 1137491949 (Cloth)
Physical Description: print
vii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The 'narrative turn' in psychology: The emergence of narrative psychology ; Dan McAdams : identity as a life story ; Hubert Hermans : the dialogical self theory ; Michael White and David Epston : narrative therapy ; Narrative psychology : limitations, tensions and challenges -- Constructing the narrative subject: The critique of the subject and the challenge of fragmentation ; Life story : identity, subject and subjectivity in McAdam's approach ; The dialogical self theory : towards decentralization ; Narrative therapy : between subjectivation and agency -- Narrative subject : between continuity and transformation: Stability and change : psychological and narratological perspectives ; McAdam's life stories and 'the making of the self' : Hermans's dialogical self : meaning as movement ; White and Epston's narrative therapy : 'storying and 're-storying' lives -- Narrative methodology: 'How psychology makes itself true - or false' ; 'Narrative identity empiricized' : protocols for narrating the self ; The dialogical self theory, valuation theory and the self-confrontation method ; The maps of narrative practice -- Narrative ethics: Ethics and academic psychology ; Self as a story : plot, temporality, closure from an ethical point of view ; The dialogical self : between polyphony and power ; The ethics of narrative therapy ; From ethical practice to the practice of ethics.