Narratives of Life: Storytelling in the Perspective of Happiness and Disaster

Grimm, Geneviève; Boothe, Brigitte

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“…Grimm et al [8] also conclude from their study that life review by elderly people can contribute to improved quality of life. Narrative gerontology contributes above all to the health of the storyteller by his well-being in the narrative of his life, thus improving his life quality; But it is also an inter-generational trainer through its exchange with the collector (listener), being a historical and social source and, consequently, a vector of improvement of the community health [6].…”

Section: Narrative Gerontologymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The collector requires solid tools and self-awareness (humility, attention, sincere interest, non-judgment, empathywhile maintaining an attitude of benevolent neutrality, respect, being able to receive emotions) before starting the narrative interviews [6]. Another difficulty may arise: the narrator, to remember his accomplishments, his failures, his despair, must put words on emotions and share them [8]. One of the risks is to recall painful memories during the narrative interviews and to provoke negative emotional states in the narrator.…”

Section: Narrative Gerontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, Andrews GJ [13] note the significant contribution of oral history to the discipline of history. The most important for us, narrative, especially narrative gerontology, brings many other benefits: well-being, resilience, wisdom, spirituality, well-aging, inter-generational links, informal learning, enrichment of cultural and historical heritage [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

Section: Narrative Gerontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Narrative Gerontology and Digital Storytelling: What Benefits for Elders?

Pecorini¹

2017

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The well-being of the aging population is a current and growing concern. We have explored two different ways which, if combined, seem to be a new promising concept. Narrative gerontology is credited with bringing many benefits and improving the feeling of "well-being" of the elders through intergenerational sharing, and thus, allowing a "well-aging". Digital storytelling, through sound, image and music, tells a biography in a few minutes that can be shared with an intimate or as many as the whole wired world. Thereby, by combining narrative gerontology and digital storytelling to create "digital narrative gerontology", we wish to bring a new promoter concept which will act positively on the "wellbeing" of the elders, on their "well-aging" and share these positive values with the community.

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Section: Narrative Gerontologymentioning

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Section: Narrative Gerontologymentioning

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Pecorini¹

2017

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“…The mutual relations among narrating, dramaturgical production, remembering, and everyday practice are examined and reflected on in the therapeutic process. Therapist and patient can compare and contrast the conditions of the narrative to the conditions of the conduct of life: fulfillment hopes compared with pragmatic prospects, anxieties and fears compared with risk scenario assessments (Grimm & Boothe, 2007).…”

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JAKOB narrative analysis: The psychodynamic conflict as a narrative model

Boothe

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Hermann

et al. 2010

Psychotherapy Research

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When a patient tells a story during psychotherapy sessions, it is both a mutual interaction between patient and therapist and a presentation of personal experience. The patient calls up and re-creates a biographical occurrence and puts it before a listener for viewing, enacting it verbally in the perspective of wish fulfillment and anxiety coping. JAKOB narrative analysis, situated in the field of psychoanalytical and narrative analytical research, is an encoding-supported qualitative instrument for the systematic reconstruction of verbal everyday narratives in the context of psychotherapeutic processes. In this study, the JAKOB narrative analysis is described in detail with the aid of an example narrative, put in relation to the therapeutic process, and discussed critically from a methodological viewpoint.

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“…Some of the difficulties of using a narrative approach for elucidating life stories are evident in the work of Grimm and Boothe (2007). These researchers used an elaborate methodology to examine biographical narratives of happiness and disaster.…”

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The critical use of narrative and literature in gerontology

Zeilig

2012

Int J Ageing Later Life

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It is now widely accepted that ''age'' and ''ageing'' are cultural concepts that are open to question. The thinking encouraged by critical gerontology has been crucially important in provoking questions about the complexities of later life, age and ageing. Similarly, the interrogation of stories of age and ageing via narrative approaches and as found in literature are increasingly recognised as an important source of knowledge for mining the intricacies of later life. There are close links between the interests of critical gerontologists and those who engage in narrative and literary gerontology. However, the potential that critical gerontology has for illuminating and probing these stories of age has often been neglected. The central argument of this article is that narrative and literary approaches to age and ageing when allied to perspectives from critical gerontology can furnish scholars with important perspectives for interpreting and re-configuring ''age''. The focus is upon how a genuinely dialogic relationship between critical gerontology and narrative and literary gerontology can be forged. In this way, the full potential of these stories of ageing; their epistemological status for enriching theoretical work on ageing, might be better exploited.

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Narratives of Life: Storytelling in the Perspective of Happiness and Disaster

Cited by 5 publications

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Narrative Gerontology and Digital Storytelling: What Benefits for Elders?

Narrative Gerontology and Digital Storytelling: What Benefits for Elders?

JAKOB narrative analysis: The psychodynamic conflict as a narrative model

The critical use of narrative and literature in gerontology

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