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Narrative and Psychotherapy

McLeod, John·1997·SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
DOI 10.4135/9781849209489
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The role and significance of stories in psychotherapy are the subject of this study. The author's principal contention is that all therapies are narrative therapies and that underlying therapy is the telling and retelling of stories

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  • Failure to achieve a satisfactory-enough alignment creates narrative tensions that can lead to development and adaptation difficulties and mental health problems.

    “failure to achieve a 'satisfactory-enough' alignment creates narrative tensions that can lead to development and adaptation difficulties and mental health problems”

    From Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009) · cites this paper as McLeod, 1997

  • Individuals whose stories do not fit dominant cultural narratives are often silenced as their stories are deemed un-tellable.

    “McLeod (1997) suggested that individuals whose stories do not fit dominant cultural narratives are often silenced as their stories are deemed un-tellable.”

    From Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009) · cites this paper as McLeod (1997)

  • Even when a teller is recounting a unique set of individual, personal events, he or she can only do so by drawing upon story structures and genres drawn from the narrative resources of a culture.

    “According to McLeod (1997), 'Even when a teller is recounting a unique set of individual, personal events, he or she can only do so by drawing upon story structures and genres drawn from the narrative resources of a culture' (p. 94).”

    From Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009) · cites this paper as McLeod (1997)

  • The dominance of the performance narrative type may make it difficult or impossible for some athletes to achieve a satisfactory-enough alignment.

    “we suggest that the dominance of the performance narrative type may make it difficult or impossible for some athletes to achieve, in McLeod's (1997) terms, 'a satisfactory-enough alignment.'”

    From Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009) · cites this paper as McLeod, 1997

  • Mental well-being requires a degree of narrative alignment between one's experience, the stories one tells, and the narrative types available within one's culture.

    “mental well-being requires a degree of narrative alignment between one's experience, the stories one tells, and the narrative types available within one's culture.”

    From Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009) · cites this paper as McLeod, 1997

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Authors
McLeod, J.
Corresponding author
McLeod, John
Venue
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Published
1997
DOI
10.4135/9781849209489
OpenAlex
W620026252
Cited by
547
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.17
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
narrative therapy, storytelling, psychotherapy, narrative, therapeutic process

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