Healing plots : the narrative basis of psychotherapy /

Therapy is the process of developing a narrative that helps bring integration and coherence to a chaotic life. In Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of Psychotherapy, the third volume in the series The Narrative Study of Lives, editors Amia Lieblich, Dan P. McAdams, and Ruthellen Josselson bring tog...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lieblich, Amia, 1939-, McAdams, Dan P., Josselson, Ruthellen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2004.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Narrative study of lives.
Subjects:	Psychotherapy. Storytelling. Narrative therapy. Narrative medicine. Narration Psychotherapy Psychiatry. Health & Biological Sciences. Psychothérapie. Art de conter. Thérapie narrative. Médecine narrative. Narrative medicine Narrative therapy Storytelling Psychotherapie Erzählen Psychotherapie. Verteltheorie. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The significance of narrative and storytelling in postpsychological counseling and psychotherapy
Demonic and tragic narratives in psychotherapy
The paradigm of tragedy as meta-narrative : a window to understanding the life story of a woman in economic and social deprivation
Between abstract individualism and gendered lives : negotiating abused women's agency and identity in therapy
Echoes of silence : remembering and repeating childhood trauma
On becoming the narrator of one's own life
Living to tell the tale : redemption narratives, shame management, and offender rehabilitation
The core conflictual relationship theme approach to relational narratives : interpersonal themes in the context of intergenerational communication of trauma
The place of psychotherapy in the life stories of women in households without men
A love story : self-defining memories in couples therapy.