Representing narrative process in therapy: Qualitative analysis of a single case

McLeod, John; Balamoutsou, Sophia

doi:10.1080/09515079608256353

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“…Clearly, these indicators are central to the theory of subjective change, which proposes that the essence of psychotherapeutic change is a transformation in the subjective patterns of interpretation and explanation that leads to the development of new subjective theories (Krause, 2005) and that these subjective theories are composed of sets of interconnected elements and refer essentially to oneself. These change indicators also are in keeping with other theoretical positions that use different concepts, such as frames of reference (Duncan & Moynihan, 1994), personal constructs (Anderson, 1997b), or rewriting of aspects of one's own life story (McLeod, 1998;McLeod & Balamoutsou, 1996), to address similar changes.…”

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“…From the perspective of approaches that emphasize the narrative aspects of psychotherapy, these changes would be conceptualized as a rewriting of aspects of one's life story (McLeod, 1998;McLeod & Balamoutsou, 1996) or, in the postmodern vein, as changes in language and communication systems (Anderson, 1997a). Regardless of the term used to describe them or their epistemological status, these changes enjoy abundant empirical and theoretical support.…”

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The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators

Krause

Parra

Arístegui

et al. 2007

Psychotherapy Research

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The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators

Krause

Parra

Arístegui

et al. 2007

Psychotherapy Research

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“…He (2004b) described regional trends, such as the focus on narrative (e.g. Balamoutsou & McLeod, 1996) and discourse analysis methods (e.g. Madill, 1996) and philosophical issues in the United Kingdom as compared to a focus on grounded theory methods (e.g.…”

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Pursuing the question of reflexivity in psychotherapy and qualitative methods: The contributions of David L. Rennie

Levitt

Pomerville

et al. 2015

Couns and Psychother Res

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Background This article documents the intellectual contributions of the psychologist David Rennie to the fields of psychotherapy research, qualitative methods and humanistic psychology by tracing the central position of reflexivity across these bodies of work. This work had a profound influence on his field and led to his viewing the fostering of clients’ reflexivity as the central task of psychotherapy. Aims It follows his path as a researcher, beginning with his advancement of grounded theory methods and their application within psychotherapy research. His development of a humanistic experiential person‐centred approach to psychotherapy is described as an extension of this valuing of reflexivity and the recognition of the role of clients’ agency within sessions. In addition, the paper reviews the innovative methodological research that led him to propose a model of inferential processes that underlies qualitative research methods and that is rooted in the process of embodied reflexivity. His contextualising qualitative methods within a form of methodical hermeneutics permitted a unifying framework for understanding the logic of qualitative methods.

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“…The analysis is open-ended, exploratory and discovery-oriented, and aims to enrich understanding rather than to reach a definitive reading of the material. For example, McLeod and Balamoutsou (1996) investigated the processes through which experience is narrativized in person-centred counselling. They identify the processes involved in the construction of the client's narrative and propose a formulation regarding the role of the therapist and the client in this.…”

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Narrative research in psychotherapy: A critical review

Avdi

Georgaca

2007

Psychol Psychother

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The range of conceptualisations of narrative in the studies reviewed, from a representational psychological view to a constructionist social view, reflects tensions within narrative psychology itself. Moreover, two trends can be discerned in the field reviewed, narrative analysis of therapy, which draws from narrative theory and utilises the analytic approaches of narrative research to study psychotherapy, and analyses of narrative in therapy, which study client narratives using non-narrative qualitative methods. Finally, the paper highlights the need for integration of this diverse field of research and urges for the development of narrative studies of psychotherapy which employ a broader social understanding of narrative production and transformation.

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Representing narrative process in therapy: Qualitative analysis of a single case

Cited by 43 publications

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The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators

The evolution of therapeutic change studied through generic change indicators

Pursuing the question of reflexivity in psychotherapy and qualitative methods: The contributions of David L. Rennie

Narrative research in psychotherapy: A critical review

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