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.
This book features essays by the major supporters of the narrative metaphor. They approach the subject from philosophical, religious, anthropologic...
This is the first work to examine the phenomena of citizen espionage from the point of view of trust betrayal. Here is an effort to illuminate the social, political, and psychological conditions that influence trusted American citizens to spy against their country. The volume combines historical inquiry, sociological studies, psychological insights, and criminological analysis. It is especially timely when many nations, friend and foe alike, have instituted programs to obtain trade secrets and classified technology from American military and industrial sources.
This is the first work to examine the phenomena of citizen espionage from the point of view of trust betrayal. Here is an effort to illuminate the ...
Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives shows how the stories we construct come to shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves. The incidents recounted here are more than just moving, funny, or painful stories of fathers and sons. Each is a myth that helped form the authors social and moral identity. This blend of feeling and intellect, story and analysis makes Between Fathers and Sons a work of art as well as a work of psychology. The contributors--many of them pioneers of narrative therapy--bring unique insight to bear on their own...
Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives shows how the stories we construct come to shape our percepti...
Theodore R. Sarbin John I. Kitsuse Theodore R. Sarbin
Provides an overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis, and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructionist theory. Each chapter analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of a wide range of issues, including anxiety, the family and ageing.
Provides an overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis, and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructi...
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
Contributors, many of them pioneers in narrative therapy, blend feeling and analysis in stories of fathers and sons. Using a variety of narrative form...
