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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Self and Identity, Leadership
- by Phillip L Hammack
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- Political Psychology, Narrative, Narrative Psychology, Israel/Palestine

A tanulmányban arra a kérdésre keresem a választ, hogy a narratív metaelmélet hozzájárulhat-e Szondi sorsanalízisének és „kísérleti ösztönészlelésének” a modern pszichológiába való integrációjához. Ennek jegyében tekintem át a narratív pszichológia elméletének főbb lehorgonyzási pontjait, azt hangsúlyozva, hogy az elbeszélés mint reprezentációs forma, mentális és nyelvi-szemiotikai tulajdonságánál fogva az ember pszichikus valóságának feltárására alkalmazható. Ezt követően az intrapszichés történések megragadásának klinikumból ismert eszközét, a ma Szondi-tesztnek nevezett eljárást ismerheti meg röviden az Olvasó. Majd egy empirikus kutatás eredményei kerülnek bemutatásra, annak igazolására, hogy a narratív pszichológiai tartalomelemzés módszerét felhasználva képesek lehetünk az ember ösztönéletének prognózisát adni.

- by Rita Hargitai
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- Narrative Psychology

Despite a growing prevalence of mental illness diagnoses and treatments, there remains remarkable interpretive diversity regarding the meaning of these diagnoses and their implication for mental healthcare. Humanities scholarship devoted to language, power and ethical cares of the self provides invaluable tools for navigating interpretive diversity in this domain. This scholarship suggests that ethical questions of informed consent regarding mental difference and disability go much deeper than the usual standards. Ethical questions of informed consent go back to the very language choices people use to narrate and navigate the mental difference or disability. Making these ethical choices between different ways of understanding psychic difference is fundamentally about making narrative and lifestyle choices. This article considers these issues in the context of the many interpretations of Vincent van Gogh's life and their ongoing relevance for contemporary approaches to mental difference and disability.

- by Bradley Lewis
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- Disability Studies, Narrative Psychology, Medical Ethics, Narrative Theory

The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 29 No 1 June 2018 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd Bhutan is a tiny Himalayan Buddhist kingdom that has faced challenges in societal changes to youth wellbeing. Twenty-five percent of its 708,000 inhabitants are school children (National Statistics Bureau, 2011). Bhutan transitioned from a feudal and monastic education structure to a modern capitalist economy and mass education system where English became the medium of instruction for primary, secondary and tertiary education (Ministry of Education, 2013). Since Western modernisation, there have been concerns of its greater influence of social and economic development on Bhutanese culture, traditional values and belief systems. Youth now have a lifestyle based on consumerism and Western modern values (Mathou, 2000). A rise in self-harm, suicide, drug abuse, theft and crime rates has been linked to a shift of values, attitudes and expectations that potentially isolate and create ...

- by Kuenga Dem
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- Sociology, Community Psychology, Critical Psychology, Narrative Psychology

Through the nightclub sequence, we analyze how, during ten minutes, the building of suspense is made, which never falls and does not lose its intensity at any time, particularly thanks to a very specific type of editing. Also, this suspense is a tool to convey a discourse on society as well as on technology, through the example of the Terminator.

- by Keyvan Sheikhalishahi
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- Film Studies, Narrative, Film Analysis, Narrative Psychology

The short title of this work: Autobiography, Time, and Narrative in Philosophy and Psychology, expresses the principal topics discussed. The temporal dispersion of an individual's actions throughout life, makes their unification and stability in purpose challenging, as such temporal separation of human actions makes it difficult to view the effects and significance of particular acts, and their long-term impact. Fortunately, narrative self-understanding and autobiographical thinking in orienting the whole human life, resolves the challenge posed by temporal dispersion. In this work, Ogunyemi explores the relationship between the anthropological theories of the dynamics of temporality with narrative self-understanding that are developed from an Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy, and recent theories in psychology and neurosciences, through her reading and interpretation of contemporary authors. She presents scientific observations related to habit formation and self-improvements that are congruent with philosophy. MacIntyre as well as other philosophers often analyzed the validity of psychology's methods and frameworks and Ogunyemi contributes to this dialogue by pointing out similarities between autobiographical temporality seen in disparate fields. She explores concepts of narrative philosophy from the first-person perspective, and makes a synthesis of elements of autobiographical temporality which could form an anthro-pological framework for observations made from research in different subspecialties of contemporary psychology and neurosciences. Her interdisciplinary approach highlights prospects of mutual enrichment between different fields. The need for interdisciplinary studies, such as this one, is ever increasing and urgent since the development of particular sciences, that promote human flourishing today, requires a deeper understanding of the human being in his totality. Omowumi Ogunyemi obtained her first degree in medicine and surgery. She has worked as a medical practitioner in various hospitals in Nigeria including The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, where she managed patients with substance induced disorders. She holds a licentiate degree and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

- by Omowumi Ogunyemi
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- Psychology, Personality Psychology, Philosophy, Self and Identity

Many studies in the management discipline have focused either on what it takes to be a business leader (normative) or what business leaders do (empirical), but little is known about the development of business leadership competence. The contribution of this paper lies in its use of life-stories of highly accomplished business leaders as data, and its dynamic design, focusing on life-long competency development. This paper proposes that highly accomplished business leaders encounter specific ‘formative events’, engendering learningto-learn agility, throughout their careers that play central roles in the development of their social identities, and their capacities to deal with change through the use of narrative analysis methodology and clustering techniques. The paper concludes that leadership competence of successful business leaders is developed through the occurrence of formative events that enable them to define their sense of identity, build their capacity to deal with change, and become agile in their ability to learn.

- by Kurt April and +1
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- Self and Identity, Narrative, Leadership, Narrative Psychology
- by Randy Kravette
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- Psychology, Music Theory, Organizational Learning, Narrative Psychology
- by Katia Rubio
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- Geography, Narrative, Narrative Psychology, Narrative and Identity
- by Mohammad Ragheb
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- Narrative Therapy, Narrative Psychology, Narratology, Narrative and Identity
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- History, Neuroscience, Media Sociology, Psychology

This paper explores Israeli backpackers’ travel narratives, in which a profound self-change is recounted. These tourists are construed as narrators, whose identity stories, in which the powerful experience of self-change is constructed and communicated, are founded on, and rhetorically validated by the unique experiences of authenticity and adventure. The relation between the travel narrative, attesting to an external voyage toward an “authentic” destination, and the self-change narrative, attesting to an internal one, is examined in light of two major discourses in tourism: the semi-religious and the Romanticist. The paper addresses the sociocultural context, that of contemporary Israeli culture, against which the self-change narratives construct a collective notion of identity, and wherein they can be viewed as effective performances.

- by Chaim Noy
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- Sociology, Asian Studies, Tourism Studies, Self and Identity

PERSONAL LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATIONS FOLLOWING
THE TRAUMATIC WAR EXPERIENCE
The personal landscape transformations are defined as the territory of a person's life, which has special dynamics, structural and functional characteristics, meaningful filling. In addition to specifying the landscape concept, the task was to determine the types of landscapes of combatants after returning from the war. The sample consisted of 91 combatants, higher education cadets, and volunteers. We used the written narrative method of the proposed scheme, a conversation, and a focused one-on-one interview. As a result, post-traumatic combatants' narratives consisted of war-related injuries (41.9%); family treason (24.7%); losses suffered in peacetime (23.5%); other difficult life situations (9.9%).
The following criteria for determining the type of landscape have been developed: meaningfulness of the past; assessment of the present; a vision of the future; value dominant. There is considered the value-semantic configuration of the individual`s life as an integral indicator of the landscape. The following types of landscapes have been identified: a) existential (differs from the unwillingness to rethink the traumatic past; to assess the present adequately; the inability to construct the future; the dominant for survival); b) family (distinguished by a good understanding of the past; adequate assessment of the present; detailed construction of the future; dominant of meaningful relationships); c) service (differs from family primarily by the criterion of dominant value - to be useful to the state, the fight against the aggressor, the army); d) self-realization (differs in the main value of self-development); e) pragmatic (distinguished by the major value of career advancement).
The most common landscapes are existential and family landscapes (25.0% each); in second place is landscapes of service and self-realization (17.3% each); on the third - pragmatic (13.6%). The hypothesis according to which the direct participation of military personnel in hostilities can act as a trigger for changing the personal landscape is confirmed.

Кресан О.Д. Переживання та усвідомлення життєвих подій у процесі їх наративізації // Ракурси психологічного благополуччя особистості : збірник тез доповідей всеукраїнського науково-практичного семінару "Ракурси психологічного благополуччя особистості", 9 червня 2017 р., Ніжин. / Ред. кол.: Титаренко Т.М. (гол.ред) та ін. – Ніжин : НДУ ім. М.Гоголя, 2017. – 177 с. – С.80–84.

- by Olha Kresan
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- Personality Psychology, Narrative Psychology, Life Events, Experience
- by Sosuke YOKOYAMA
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- Narrative Psychology, Narrative Theory, Jerome Bruner

The comparative analysis of self-constitution and self-realization in the context of post-classical psychology is presented. The possibilities of personal meanings operationalization in life-tasks are shown. The specifics of task self-constitution at different stages of the life path are determined. The life-task is considered as a narrative model of the desired transformation of the life trajectory and the acquisition of the personality of the renewed identity. The ways of constructing the futurological narrative as a life-task, which is formed within the concrete plot, acquire creativity, competitiveness, eroticism, and environmental friendliness are determined. By the thesaurus of the main plots included scenes of conquest with their heroic and love branches, adventure, and criminal stories, plots of salvation, preservation, contemplation, inaction. Among the characteristics of life's tasks as narrative, plot-based practices described personal belonging, strategic, probability, range and focus of use.
Keywords: life tasks, modeling of the future, self-constitution, practice, futurological narrative, plot, life trajectory.

- by Tetiana Tytarenko
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- Personality Psychology, Narrative Psychology, Life Cycle Assessment, Modernity

This chaper connects Wittgensteinian thinking and complexity perspectives with discourse in the therapy room and elsewhere. We propose that this connection, termed 'narrative emergence''. While the future is unknowable, it is an ever present possibility in the present
We continuously create and discover the future by engaging in self-organizing activities (particularly social interactions) that are, at least partly, improvised, and potentially transformative. Thus, the narratives emergent in our everyday lives are always under construction. They exist in our ongoing ‘work’ to make sense of and manage the exigencies of life. These narratives emerge step-by-step in discourse.

- by Mark McKergow and +1
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- Discursive Psychology, Narrative Psychology, Solution-Focused Therapy, Wittgenstein

Humanistic psychology has a long tradition of developmental thought. Yet, no place has been reserved for a specifically humanistic perspective in developmental psychology textbooks. This article presents a humanistic perspective to serve as a convenient guide for the potential creation of a textbook entry. A highly condensed account of Existential-Humanistic Self- Development Theory (EHSDT) is outlined and compared with the theories that most frequently garner coverage in developmental textbooks. Suggestions for further research on the major themes of EHSDT are also provided. These include the role of the imagination in shaping the trajectories of lifespan development, the intercorporeal and multicultural em- beddedness of the narrative imagination, the self-cultivation process, cooperative culture creation, thriving amid paradox, and the ways in which motivational dynamics operate within diverse social contexts. Carefully planned rollout of such research should help prevent further marginalization of explicitly humanistic developmental theory on the basis that it challenges some of the fundamental assumptions of the established theories and, accordingly, tends to be met with resistance or, at best, indifference.

- by Eline Arisse
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- Narrative Medicine, Narrative Psychology

"Carter's music poses struggles of opposition, for instance in timbre (Double Concerto), space (String Quartet No. 3) or pulse (String Quartet No. 5). His preference for the all-interval tetrachords, 4–Z15 [0, 1, 4, 6] and 4–Z29 [0, 1, 3,... more

- by Joshua B Mailman
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- Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Evolutionary Psychology, Music

Memes that are destructive to the cohesion of a complex social system should be defined as pathogenic memes. As a result, it is my belief that a cognitive prophylaxis model is necessary, and feasible, when it comes to preventing a... more

- by Michael Ross
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- Social Psychology, Social Work, Cyberpsychology, Traumatic Stress

Especially in the case of refugees, the past and its memory tend to be definitional components for personal and social constructions of identity. At the same time, the relationship with the past is frequently problematic and challenging. This study identifies two main narratives and subject positions adopted by refugee participants from the former Yugoslavia: ‘the past is past’ and ‘the past is our strength.’ I analyse the complexity implicit in these two narratives about the past. Although these narratives at first appear contradictory, the participants’ stories illustrate the ways in which they co-operate for the development of mental health in refugees. The ongoing dialogue between the two narratives allows for the participants’ endorsement of subject positions that refer to both individual and collective identities. The strategic use of history permits reinterpretations and relocations of traumatic memories as well as the formation of self-healing narratives that reframe refugee identities in the light of ethnic history and shared experience. I critically discuss the implications of this narrative reframing in relation to aspects of dominant discourses about refugee mental health and postmodern considerations in psychology and counselling.

- by Marco Gemignani
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- Self and Identity, Refugee Studies, Balkan Studies, Migration

Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power gives new meaning to the impact of research on policy and practice. Real Social Science is a major step forward in a novel and thriving field of research. This book will benefit scholars, researchers, and students who want to make a difference in practice, not just in the academy. Its message will make it essential reading for students and academics across the social sciences.

- by Bent Flyvbjerg and +1
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- Screenwriting, Critical Theory, Critical Theory, Critical Theory

The basis of Narrative Therapy with a theological and creative narration.

- by Jeanie Linton
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- Creative Writing, Theology, Narrative, Narrative Therapy
- by Bradley Lewis
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- Psychiatry, Narrative, Narrative Medicine, Narrative Psychology

Family narratives and reminisces can be effectively used by parents as a tool to help children develop self-concept. Family narratives are the way through which children and adolescents connect across generations to create self-identity. By anchoring oneself in family history, one develops a sense of place and security that may facilitate self-confidence and self-competence. In the modern world where nuclear family is the norm, parents need to ensure that family narratives are used effectively in helping children navigate through challenges of life. Parents and grandparents have to pay careful attention to family history and narratives; and put in efforts in developing strong family narratives to be shared with children. Also, parents need to be careful while sharing those reminisces and narratives by avoiding individual comparison of their children with others in the past. Celebrating certain occasions as a day for showing gratitude towards grandparents and older generations can also generate curiosity and interest among children about family narratives. The current study looks into family narratives practices, challenges and how parents can develop strong family narratives to be shared with their children.

- by Dr. Rakesh Maurya
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- Family Therapy, Family studies, Narrative, Family Law

Scholars worldwide have examined The Pillowman (2003) based on its most notable themes including the role of the art and the artist in contemporary society, the play's allegorical connotations, or even the use of the grotesque within the narrative (Ghazi Mohammed; Worthen&Worthen; Thornson). While the theme of violence has been discussed in terms of its justification and legitimization, the connection of child abuse with the creation of narrative identities within the play lacks substantiation. (Carroll 169) The aim of the project is to address the heated issue of child violence in contemporary society in relation to the formation of the narrative self–namely Katurian's and Michal's–based on psychological readings of the self as a storied construct.

- by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
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- Psychology, Social Psychology, Domestic Violence, Violence

This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (c) the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (d) the case study contains a bias toward verification; and (e) it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. This article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of a greater number of good case studies.

- by Bent Flyvbjerg
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- Critical Theory, Business, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior
- by Eric Parkins
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Behavioural Science, Clinical Psychology

A human generation’s lifestyle, behaviours, habits, and actions are governed heavily by homogenous mindsets. But the current scenario is witnessing a rapid gap in this homogeneity as a result of an intervention, or rather, the dominance of the digital revolution in the human lifestyle. The current mindset for mass production, employment, multi-tasking, rapid involvement and stiff competition to stay above the rest has led to a major shift in human consciousness. Architecture, as an entity is being perceived differently. The screens are replacing the skies. The pace at which operation and evolution is taking place has increased. It is paradoxical, that time seems to be moving faster despite the intention to save time.
Parallelly, there is an evident shift in architectural typologies spanning across different generations. From structures that tied people to their cultural and religious roots within the Indian context, the architecture of today is now seems influenced heavily from here and there. Mass production of buildings and over-exploitation of resources, giving shape to uninspiring algorithmic designs ambiguously catering to multiple user groups has become a prevalent theme. Borrow-and-steal replaces influence, and the diminishing depth in today’s designs reflects a lack of understanding and connection. The digitally dominated world; perceived as an aid to connect and network, is making humans less capable of real-life interactions and understanding. It is not wrong, but it doesn’t seem right either. Human engagement not only with the natural, but the built environment is a concern which surfaces. A question arises: -
Does human engagement drive architecture, or does architecture drive human engagement?
This dissertation paper attempts to relook at architecture’s capacity and its relativity with pace to influence the conscious decisions of a human being. Secondary research, supported with case examples, helps in understanding the translation of human engagement with the built environment – into physical, tangible architecture. The procedure -- or theme -- is pace and the role of slowness in the context of human behaviour, thus bridging the widening gap between the human race and the architecture they themselves give shape to, avoiding a possible future dystopian world.

- by Jaidev Tripathy
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- Psychology, Philosophy, Design, Spatial Analysis

From restorative justice literature in general. two conceptions of restorative justice processing can be discerned. The one is a
modest conception based on individual (dispositional) theories of crime and the other is an expansive view which is closer to peacebuilding and has a further distinction. One distinction is based on situational theories of crime which hold that structural factors are responsible for crime. The other distinction is based on integrative theories of crime which hold that there is an interaction between individual and structural factors that produce crime and that structural factors should be taken into account during restorative justice processing.

- by Lorraine Cornillie
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- Epistemology, Embodiment, Narrative Psychology, Cyber Aesthetics

Peak End Rule (Kahneman, 1993; 2011) suggests that the average of the peak and end moments of an event disproportionately affect memory and thus perception of the experience. We investigate PER's application to the experience of reading fiction. Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" (2012) is an ideal case study because it is commercially popular but, unlike most popular novels, has a distinctly amoral ending. We hypothesize that humans expect moral payoffs at the end of narrative fiction, and that when these expectations are not met (i.e., pain at the end of the experience), as in the case of "Gone Girl," readers' perceptions of the story will be influenced by this pain and manifest as disappointment and dislike. We reference existing models in evolutionary psychology, which seek to explain human altruism, and models in cognitive science, which seek to explain patterns in memory and assessment. To quantify disappointment and dislike, we conduct a programmatic corpus linguistic analysis of 40,000 web-scraped Amazon product reviews of "Gone Girl," comparing them to reviews of eight other similarly popular novels from the same year. Results show that reader sentiments about "Gone Girl," both the overall review ratings and analysis on a sentence-by-sentence basis, are more positive than for the comparison novels. When only reviews mentioning "end" are analyzed, however, the effect reverses, with a similar finding at the more granular level of sentences mentioning "end." These findings support our hypothesis that moral endings, or lack thereof, significantly shape reader perceptions of a novel.

- by Sarah Binau
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Film Theory
- by Miguel M. Gonçalves
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- Narrative Psychology

Settler-colonisation in locations such as Australia, North America and Aotearoa/New Zealand occurred in the context of a racial discourse that constructed and positioned the indigenous populations as racially inferior. Deficit narratives associated with indigenous identity continue to form part of the dominant discourse that treats Aboriginal people as a problem population requiring particular forms of management. As a result, many Aboriginal women in Australia have a lifelong experience of significant trauma. The literature identifies such trauma as a significant risk factor in the development of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) problems, and while it is acknowledged that problem AOD use and associated harms is an issue for many Aboriginal women, significant dimensions of the issue remain largely unaddressed. There are multiple barriers to addressing the issue openly, including fear, lack of services, and gaps in our knowledge of culturally safe therapeutic practices. Informed by the stories of the Aboriginal women and Aboriginal counsellors and community workers who feature in this study, the purpose of the research is to present a conceptual framework that will contribute to greater knowledge and more culturally sensitive practices in the field of AOD counselling for indigenous women experiencing high rates of AOD-related harm. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and using narrative-inquiry methods, the study aims to provide a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the impact of gendered racism and of the role of the self-conscious emotion of shame in the development and maintenance of alcohol problems experienced by Aboriginal women. The research demonstrates the value of, and argues the need for, therapists embracing narrative and storied approaches in working with Australian Aboriginal women seeking help for alcohol problems—not only to ‘treat’ the immediate alcohol problem, but also to address the underlying issue of endemic low self-esteem that gives rise to the problem.

El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar algunos patrones de la narrativa del abuso sexual contra mujeres en el contexto peruano desde el modelo de configuración de la trama propuesto por Paul Ricoeur. En la primera parte del trabajo se explica el modelo temporal y los elementos fundamentales para la construcción de la trama que se usaron al elaborar el instrumento de evaluación. En la segunda, se exponen algunos aspectos del antes, inmediatamente-posterior y después del abuso con los que se pueden vislumbrar los estragos que causa en la autocomprensión de la persona. En la tercera, se propone lo que se ha denominado la metáfora del recobrar el tiempo. En otras palabras, la invitación a una narrativa en la que los nudos de la trama permitan desenlaces en las que los abusos son resimbolizados a la luz del final intencional del relato. Por último, en la discusión, se proponen algunos ajustes a la terapia narrativa usada actualmente en psicología desde los presupuestos teóricos expuestos y los datos recolectados en las entrevistas.

- by Juan David Quiceno
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- Phycology, Philosophy, Narrative, Narrative Psychology
- by Frank Meier
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- Critical Theory, Business, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior

The aim of this study was to investigate how individuals;who had been victims of school bullying;perceived their bullying experiences and how these had affected them;and to generate a grounded theory of being a victim of bullying at school. Twenty-one individuals;who all had prior experiences of being bullied in school for more than one year;were interviewed. Qualitative analysis of data was performed by methods from grounded theory. The research identified a basic process of victimising in school bullying;which consisted of four phases: (a) initial attacks;(b) double victimising;(c) bullying exit and (d) after-effects of bullying. Double victimising refers to a process in which there was an interplay between external victimising and internal victimising. Acts of harassment were repeatedly directed at the victims from their social environment at school – a social process that constructed and repeatedly confirmed their victim role in the class or the group. This external victimising affected the victims and initiated an internal victimising;which meant that they internalised the socially constructed victim-image and acted upon this image;which in turn often supported the bullies’ agenda and confirmed the socially constructed victim-image. The findings also indicate the possible positive effect of changing the social environment.

- by Robert Thornberg
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- Sociology, Sociology, Sociology, Criminology

Narrating the personal experience of a chronic illness poses the challenge of reflecting on epistemic states that define the person´s past, present and future selves. Evidentiality thus becomes one essential tool to enact the self. To explore the role of evidentials in different illness stories, 32 unsolicited narratives of eating disorders (ED), 28 accounts of borderline personality disorder (BPD), and 29 testimonies of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were selected from the Internet. The discursive analysis of the evidential strategies revealed that, in ED narratives, the enactment of the self was realized via visual perception, and the body was construed as self. In BPD narratives, inner emotional states were adopted as the source of evidence, and the mood was defined as self. In CFS narratives, the source of evidence to define the self was bodily perceptions, and sensations were understood as self. These results indicate that evidentials are genre-sensitive and develop particular discursive functions in different illness narratives.

The refugee journey is the defining feature of the exilic process: it is a profoundly formative and transformative experience and a 'lens' on the newcomers' social condition. Yet it remains a significantly under-researched theme in refugee and forced migration studies. This exploratory article maps what exists, what is missing , and what might be researched regarding these journeys. Commencing with a review of the fragmented nature of the research and its limited analytical scope, the article then reviews BenEzer's definitive work. The core of the article explores the potential value and contribution of the study of journeys in terms of: better understanding the profoundly formative experience of the journey; giving voice to the refugees' unique experiences; and better informing policy from a fuller understanding of the journey experience. The article presents four conceptual challenges in studying the refugee journey and the final section proceeds to discuss some of the methodological questions related to research of journeys.