Synopses & Reviews
Narrative psychology proceeds from the assumption that understanding human experience and behavior necessarily involves reviewing the relevant historical and cultural contexts in which they occur. This book is an argument for and example of narrative psychology. It contains an autobiographical essay by Theodore Sarbin, a duography by Mary and Kenneth Gergen, and a teleography by George Howard, and nine other life stories by people whose scholarship has reflected a contextualist or narrative root metaphor. Psychologists will find these essays useful to the interpretation of contemporary theories and research focused on narrative, scripts, and discourse processing. This anthology will also be interesting to students of autobiographical memory and biography because of the conscious reflexivity expressed in the essays and comments by each of the contributors on the effects of writing one's life story.
Synopsis
This book is an argument for and an example of narrative psychology. At its heart are the autobiographies of psychologists whose scholarship reflects a contextualist or narrative root metaphor.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-284) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction by D. John Lee
Steps to the Narratory Principle by Theodore R. Sarbin
Yet Another Preacher's Kid Finds Psychology by Karl E. Scheibe
Let's Pretend: A Duography by Mary and Kenneth Gergen
Playing in the Rough by Leon Rappoport
The Orpheus Legend and Its Surprising Transformations by Donald P. Spence
A Memory of Games and Some Games of Memory by Brian Sutton-Smith
Uncovering Clues, Discovering Change by Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
A View from the Fringe by Joseph F. Rychlak
Conditions and Will: The Enigma of Remembrance by Jesse Hiraoka
It Was My Mother Taught Me How to Sing by Stephen Crites
Elementals by Robert Detweiler
The Stories We Live By: Confessions by a Member of the Species Homo Fabulans (Man, the Storyteller) by George S. Howard
Afterword by D. John Lee
Bibliography
Index