A New Narrative for Psychology

Brian Schiff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-933218-2 (ISBN)

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A New Narrative for Psychology focuses on how we study and think about persons and the goals of psychological understanding. By critiquing contemporary variable-centered and statistical methods, this book investigates what these approaches leave unexplored by presenting a cutting-edge perspective for theorizing and studying the thorny problem of human meaning making.

How can a narrative perspective help us advance our understanding of the fundamental problems of human psychology and better appreciate persons in diverse social and cultural contexts? In A New Narrative for Psychology, author Brian Schiff offers researchers and scholars a new way to study and think about people and the goals of psychological understanding today. By providing a challenging critique of contemporary methods and addressing what these approaches to psychological research leave unexplored, Schiff presents readers with a cutting-edge approach for getting at the thorny problem of meaning making in human lives.

While serving as a helpful guide for psychology scholars, this volume is also an excellent place to start for readers who might be unfamiliar with narrative psychology. Here, Schiff carefully considers the history of the field and its place within contemporary psychology by offering a fresh and innovative theoretical perspective on narrative as an active interpretative process present in most aspects of our everyday lives. Further, Schiff expertly grounds this research for readers in clear, vivid illustrations of what can be learned from the intensive study of how people narrate their experiences, selves, social relationships, and the world today.

A New Narrative for Psychology is an invitation to a fascinating conversation about the critical questions of the discipline, the most effective strategies for approaching them, and an exciting glimpse into the future of narrative psychology.

Brian Schiff is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris. A graduate of The University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development, Schiff's research uses narrative in order to examine the meeting place between person, social relationships and culture. He is editor of Rereading Personal Narrative and Life Course, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, and co-editor of Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience.

Acknowledgements
Dedication

PART ONE
Introduction: What's the Problem?
Chapter 1: Out of Context
Chapter 2: Out of the Head

PART TWO
Chapter 3: Turning to Narrative
Chapter 4: How Narrating Functions
Chapter 5: Making It SoEL

PART THREE
Chapter 6: Interpreting Interpretations
Chapter 7: Interpreting Ben's Survival
Chapter 8: Interpretation in Practice
Chapter 9: Reasoned Interpretations
Conclusion: Unity in Psychology?

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Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Narrative Psychology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Humanistische Psychotherapien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-933218-5 / 0199332185
ISBN-13	978-0-19-933218-2 / 9780199332182
Zustand	Neuware