Healing plots : the narrative basis of psychotherapy / edited by Amia Lieblich, Dan P. McAdams, and Ruthellen Josselson.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Narrative study of lives.
Other Authors: Lieblich, Amia, 1939-
McAdams, Dan P.
Josselson, Ruthellen
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2004], ©2004.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Narrative study of lives.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy.
Storytelling.
Narrative therapy.
Narration.
Psychothérapie.
Art de conter.
Thérapie narrative.
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Physical Description:x, 222 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
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.