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Narrative psychology : the storied nature of human conduct
- Title
- Narrative psychology : the storied nature of human conduct / edited by Theodore R. Sarbin.
- Publication
- New York : Praeger, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sarbin, Theodore R.
- Description
- xviii, 303 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book features essays by the major supporters of the narrative metaphor. They approach the subject from philosophical, religious, anthropological, and historical perspectives as well as from the psychological point of view. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and literary theorists will find the book provocative and a convenient reference source to the narrative approach.
- Series Statement
- Praeger special studies
- Praeger scientific
- Subject
- Discourse analysis, Narrative > Psychological aspects
- Communication
- Imagination
- Social psychology
- Misinformation
- Communication
- Imagination
- Psychology, Social
- imagination
- social psychology
- Social psychology
- Discourse analysis, Narrative > Psychological aspects
- Epik
- Literaturpsychologie
- Erzählen
- Psychologie
- Verteltheorie
- Psychologie
- Vertelkunst
- Psychologische aspecten
- Note
- "Praeger special studies."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Contents
- pt. I The narrative in scientific theories : The narrative as a root metaphor for psychology / Theodore R. Sarbin -- Narrative form and the construction of psychological science / Kenneth J. Gergen, Mary M. Gergen -- Trespassing in scientific narrative : Grafton Elliot Smith and the temple of doom / Misia Landau -- pt. II Studies of narratory competence : Children's fiction making / Brian Sutton-Smith -- The acquisition and use of narrative grammar structure / James C. Mancuso -- Narrative thinking as a heuristic process / John A. Robinson, Linda Hawpe -- pt. III The emplotment of self-narratives : Self-narratives and adventure / Karl E. Scheibe -- Storytime : recollecting the past and projecting the future / Stephen Crites -- Paranoia and cataclysmic narratives / Ernest Keen -- pt. IV Constructing and deconstructing self-narratives : The narrative in psychoanalysis : psychoanalytic notes on storytelling, listening, and interpreting / Frederick Wyatt -- Narrative smoothing and clinical wisdom / Donald P. Spence -- The analysis of interview-narratives / Elliot G. Mishler -- Deconstructing histories : toward a systematic criticism of psychological narratives / Robert S. Steele -- Literary pathfinding : the work of popular life constructors / Kevin Murray.
- ISBN
- 0275921034
- 9780275921033
- LCCN
- 86008130
- OCLC
- ocm13395362
- 13395362
- SCSB-8912822
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library