Between Fathers and Sons : Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives

ISBN-13: 9780789015112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 254 str.

Robert J. Pellegrini; Theodore R. Sarbin

Opis

Contributors, many of them pioneers in narrative therapy, blend feeling and analysis in stories of fathers and sons. Using a variety of narrative forms, from the soliloquy to the multiple narrator, they explore and analyze themes of silence, mystery, respect, self-reliance, and longing for continuit

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Contents

• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Chapter 1. General Introduction
• From a Story to a Book
• Rationale, Objectives, and Method
• Contemporary Sociocultural Context
• The Essays
• And Just One More Thing
• Chapter 2. Sons and Fathers: The Storied Nature of Human Relationships
• Genres
• Style and Content
• Sacred Stories
• Three Perspectives
• Section I. Identity Stories
• Chapter 3. I Am Older Than My Father
• Chapter 4. Remembering the Origins of a Constructivist Psychologist
• Chapter 5. Teaching by Doing
• Chapter 6. Every Kid Deserves a Chance
• Being There
• Chapter 7. Responsibilities
• Chapter 8. On Coming to Understand My Father: A Personal and Professional Journey
• The Emotional Relationship with My Father
• What Relations to My Work?
• Conclusion
• Section II. Stories of Emotional Life
• Chapter 9. The One That Got Away--Or Did It?
• Mark's Story
• Richard's Story
• A Conversation Between Father and Son
• Chapter 10. Learning to Appreciate the Sublime: Don't Knock the Rock
• Chapter 11. Remembering My Father
• Context
• Elaborating the Memory
• On Fathers and Sons
• The Twenty-First Century
• Anchoring Across
• Coda
• Chapter 12. Blessed Be the Name of the Father: Generational Exercises
• Kenneth Gergen: On Relations with My Father
• John Stanford Gergen: Life with My Father
• Chase Martini: On Relations with My Father
• Spanning the Generations: Beyond the Silence
• Chapter 13. Their Way
• Chapter 14. In Absentia
• Section III. Stories of Self-Understanding
• Chapter 15. The Presence of What is Missing: Memory, Poetry, and the Ride Home
• Chapter 16. Paternal Role Slippage Across Cultures
• Critical Incident
• Father-Son Relationship As Culture-Bound
• Resolution
• Chapter 17. To Tell the Secrets of My Prison House
• Chapter 18. My Measure, My Guide, and Still a Mystery
• Small-Town Preacher, in Motion
• Father As Teacher and Taskmaster
• A Critical Piece of Advice
• Sequelae
• Epilogue
• Chapter 19. Farewell to Vienna: The Authority of Nostalgia
• Epilogue
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Pellegrini, Robert J; Sarbin, Theodore R