Community and Coherence: Narrative Contributions to the Psychology of Conflict and Loss

Construing a “Perfect Knight”: A Personal Construct Investigation of Mass Murder

“…However, that it is not impossible is indicated by moving stories of radicalized Islamic fundamentalists who changed their beliefs and are now leading a dialogue center for Muslims and Christians (Husain, 2007;Nawaz, 2012). As indicated by Neimeyer and Tschudi (2003), restorative justice may offer possibilities for reconstruing. Whether this may be fruitful in Breivik's case will be the subject of a future article.…”

The Story of Manhood: Using a Narrative Approach to Facilitate Unique Constructions of Masculinity

“…Nevertheless, lack of awareness does not insulate men from the manner in which gender stories shape their lives. It is common for a dominant societal discourse to overpower individuals' attempts to construct unique stories about themselves or the world (Neimeyer & Tschudi, 2003). Augusta-Scott (2007) asserted that gender is a story that society tells about men and women.…”

“…During this process, clients will typically narrate the history and range of influence of their problems. The cultural discourse that is occurring about being a man has the potential to influence men's narratives (Neimeyer & Tschudi, 2003). As a result, the stories men are telling about themselves, about other men, and about the world at large may be incompatible.…”

Compulsory compassion: a critique of restorative justice

“…Just as psychotherapy can be a form of narrative repair, when people cannot construct an adaptive story about their worries, restorative justice can be about restorying lives in disarray because of a crime. They are renarrated as the lives of people who have survived, transcended, or repaired injustice (Zehr 1990;Pranis 2001;Neimeyer and Tschudi 2003). As a general matter, the nonnarrative processing of human experience might be somewhat exceptional (Neimeyer and Levitt 2001).…”

“…With less grand restorative processes, such as care and protection conferences for children, restorative justice theory and practice needs to develop a more sophisticated meta regulation of justice (Parker 1999;Braithwaite 2005) to bubble up the justice of the people into the justice of the law. For individuals, for families, schools, companies, nations, relearning of identity through a transformative narrative can flip posttraumatic stress to posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi, Park, and Calhoun 1998;Neimeyer and Tschudi 2003). Of course, narrative disruption occurs more often at the hands of a hegemonic story that subjugates citizens into identities that crush their growth capabilities (Niemeyer 2000).…”