Narrative Psychology: Identity, Transformation And Ethics
by Julia Vassilieva /
2016 / English / PDF
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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 clear, well-structured 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.
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 clear, well-structured 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.
