SUBJECT
Narrative Psychological Methods
DPSY16-QLR-104
practice
Doctoral
7
Semester 1-4
Autumn/Spring semester
Early proponents of the narrative psychological approach (Sarbin and Bruner). Narrative as a construct to generate meaning.
Definition of the narrative. Approaches to the analysis of narrative structure: literary studies (Russian formalism, concept of genre, narratology), cognitive psychology (story grammars), sociolinguistics (Labov). Components of narrative organisation: coherence, temporal and causal connections, perspective, evaluation.
Narrative identity: life-story model of identity (McAdams), narrative approaches to social identity (László).
Narrative as an organizing principle for mental functioning. Thinking: two forms of thinking (Bruner, Schank). Autobiographical memory (Rubin, Kónya). Narrative organization of emotions (Oatley, Stein). Flow of consciousness (Chafe). Trauma elaboration (Pennebaker).
Methods for narrative studies: narrative interview, transcription, segmentation, softwares for assistance in narrative analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Bruner J. S. (1990). Acts of Meaning. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
- Capps, L. & Ochs, E. (1995). Constructing Panic. The Discourse of Agoraphobia. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
- Chafe, W. (1994). Discourse, Consciousness and Time. The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
- László, J. (2008). The Science of Stories. An Introduction to Narrative Psychology. London, Routledge.