Authors: John McLeod (Editor), Lynne E. Angus
ISBN-13: 9780761926849, ISBN-10: 0761926844
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Lynne Angus is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a member of the Psychotherapy Research Group at York University, Toronto. Dr. Angus has an active psychotherapy practice in which she specializes in narrative-focused experiential psychotherapy. She is clinical supervisor for brief therapy treatments at the East End Community Health Clinic in Toronto. Her research interests include the development of a narrative processes model and an assessment interview and coding system for psychotherapy discourse. She has published several papers on the analysis of metaphor themes in psychotherapy sessions. The Narrative Processes Coding System has been translated into 2 languages and research collaborations in Finland, Portugal, and Spain are underway. Current grant-supported efforts include the empirical analysis of narrative change in the experiential treatment of depression as well as the systematic analysis of narrative coherence in psychotherapy sessions. She has published over 20 publications in research journals and psychotherapy-related texts.
In addition to their academic work, both Angus and McLeod are practicing clinicians who see clients, train and supervise clinical psychologists in psychotherapy and counseling skills and are engaged in psychotherapy process and outcome research. In their work, they attempt to fully integrate theory and research into practice, and they believe that each component of the processpractice, theory, evaluation/researchinform each other.
John McLeod is Professor of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, and previous Professor of Counselling Studies at Keele University, England. Originally trained in person-centered counseling and psychotherapy, he has shifted in recent years in the direction of a narrative-informed approach. Research interests include the development of qualitative methods for the hermeneutic narrative analysis of interview and psychotherapy transcript data, and the creation of practitioner-oriented research strategies. He has published six books, including An Introduction to Counselling, Second Edition (Open University Press 1998), which incorporates a chapter on narrative approaches, Narrative & Psychotherapy (Sage Ltd, 1997), which reviews recent developments in narrative-informed theory, research and practice, and Qualitative Research in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Sage Ltd, 2000), which includes a chapter on research into narrative and discourse in psychotherapy. He has also published over 30 chapters and papers on a range of counseling and psychotherapy topics.
In addition to their academic work, both Angus and McLeod are practicing clinicians who see clients, train and supervise clinical psychologists in psychotherapy and counseling skills and are engaged in psychotherapy process and outcome research. In their work, they attempt to fully integrate theory and research into practice, and they believe that each component of the processpractice, theory, evaluation/researchinform each other.
The "narrative turn" in psychotherapy entails practitioners seeing their work as appreciating client stories and helping clients "re- author" their life stories. Twenty-one chapters, presented by Angus (York U., UK) and McLeod (U. of Abertay Dundee, UK) bring together different strands of thinking about narrative and psychotherapy. Contributions first address the broad underlying conceptual issues and debates. Postructuralist, cognitive narrative, experiential, relational constructivist, and other approaches to using narrative are then described. Other papers explore questions of narrative identity and self-multiplicity and their implications of psychotherapeutic practice. Also explored are strategies of narrative assessment. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Preface | ||
1 | The Narrative Creation of Self | 3 |
2 | Folk Psychology and Narrative Practices | 15 |
3 | Narrative Therapy and Postmodernism | 53 |
4 | The CCRT Approach to Working With Patient Narratives in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | 71 |
5 | "What's the Story?" Working With Narrative in Experiential Psychotherapy | 87 |
6 | Nurturing Nature: Cognitive Narrative Strategies | 103 |
7 | Working With Narrative in Psychotherapy: A Relational Constructivist Approach | 119 |
8 | A Poststructuralist Approach to Narrative Work | 137 |
9 | Narrative Identity and Narrative Therapy | 159 |
10 | The Innovation of Self-Narratives: A Dialogical Approach | 175 |
11 | Assimilation and Narrative: Stories as Meaning Bridges | 193 |
12 | Minding Our Therapeutic Tales: Treatments in Perspectivism | 211 |
13 | Self-Defining Memories, Narrative Identity, and Psychotherapy: A Conceptual Model, Empirical Investigation, and Case Report | 229 |
14 | The Narrative Assessment Interview: Assessing Self-Change in Psychotherapy | 247 |
15 | Disorganized Narratives: The Psychological Condition and Its Treatment | 263 |
16 | Story Dramaturgy and Personal Conflict: JAKOB - A Tool for Narrative Understanding and Psychotherapeutic Practice | 283 |
17 | Narrative Activity: Clients' and Therapists' Intentions in the Process of Narration | 299 |
18 | "To Tell My Story": Configuring Interpersonal Relations Within Narrative Process | 315 |
19 | The Contributions of Emotion Processes to Narrative Change in Psychotherapy: A Dialectical Constructivist Approach | 331 |
20 | Social Construction, Narrative, and Psychotherapy | 351 |
21 | Toward an Integrative Framework for Understanding the Role of Narrative in the Psychotherapy Process | 367 |
Name Index | 375 | |
Subject Index | 383 | |
About the Editors | 397 | |
About the Contributors | 399 |