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Narrative and Psychotherapy
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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”
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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“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)
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“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)
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“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
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“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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“Crossley (2000) and McLeod (1997) suggested that when individuals feel impelled to silence - to suppress or distort stories of their experience for fear of the negative reactions of others - one result is a number of emotional responses linked with depression and poor mental health.”
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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“In short, opportunity to share stories of our lives which are met with understanding, support, and empathy, is an important aspect of mental health and personal development (McAdams, 1993; McLeod, 1997).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McLeod, J.
- Corresponding author
- McLeod, John
- Venue
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Published
- 1997
- OpenAlex
- W620026252
- Cited by
- 547
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- FWCI
- 15.17
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- 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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