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Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology

A Guide to Practice

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Peter Emerson

    1. Unthank Family Centre, Norwich, UK

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  2. Stephen Frosh

    1. Centre for Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction — Psychosocial Studies and Critical Narrative Analysis

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 1-23

  3. Questioning and Transcribing: How to Gain Access to Personal Narratives

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 24-50

  4. Linguistic Tools and Interpretive Levels: Beginning Interpretation

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 51-78

  5. Building a Rabbit Run: Doing Thematic Interpretation

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 79-106

  6. Canonical Narratives and Cultural Orders: Moving Analysis to a More Molar Level

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 107-128

  7. Claims and Counterclaims: Working Critically with Narratives

    • Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh
    Pages 129-159

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 160-170
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About this book

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as 'sexually abusive', analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.

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'If you are interested in conducting psychosocial research and curious about what the study of narrative offers, then this is the book for you. Emerson and Frosh provide a lucid and fluent account of the techniques of narrative analysis complete with highly accessible examples illustrating different levels of analysis. Their book, however, is much more than a simple 'how to' guide. It is a truly fine theoretical exegesis presenting the latest trends in discursive research and critical psychosocial thinking in ways which will inspire and intrigue clinical and psychotherapeutic practitioners as well as social science audiences.' - Professor Margaret Wetherell, Director ESRC Identities Programme, Open University, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • Unthank Family Centre, Norwich, UK

    Peter Emerson

  • Centre for Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Stephen Frosh

About the authors

Author Stephen Frosh: Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and was previously Vice-Dean of the Tavistock Clinic.. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis, For and Against Psychoanalysis, After Words, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference and Identity Crisis. His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory.

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