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Illustrations x
Introduction 1
The nature of narratives 1
Narrative analysis 3
Preliminary on scientific narrative psychology 4
1 Foundations of narrative psychology 7
The narrative nature of human knowledge 7
Narratology 10
The referentiality of narrative 11
The reference of therapeutic narratives 13
History as narrative 13
Science as narrative 14
Narrative causality 15
Hermeneutic composition 16
The role of time in narrative 16
Genre-specific particularity 18
Genre archetypes 18
Narrative canons 19
Narrative comprehension 22
Narrative speech acts 24
Narrative perspective 24
Psycho-narratology 26
Summary 27
2 The place of narrative in psychology 29
Psychology: natural and/or social science 29
Knowing reality and/or understanding narrative 30
The problem of complexity of phenomena: narrative as complex pattern 32
The issue of complexity in the theory of evolution 34
Evolution and cultural evolution 35
Space and narrative 35
Time and narrative 36
Intention and action in narrative 36
The archaeological paradigm in psychology 39
Narrative as medium of historical-cultural psychology 40
Narrative psychology as cultural and evolutionary psychology 41
Summary 42
3 Narrative psychology and postmodernism 43
Modernity and postmodernity 45
Postmodernism and psychoanalysis 46
Narrativity as constraint on meaning construction 48
Narrative literature and narrative psychology 49
Narrative psychology as psychology of meaning 51
Summary 52
4 Narrative psychology's contribution to the second cognitive revolution 54
Forerunners of narrative psychology in experimental and social psychology 55
Bartlett and thepsychology of meaning 56
The problem of meaning in experimental social psychology 58
Socio-cultural aspects of psychological meaning 60
Communication and cognition 61
Narrative psychological approach 63
Social cognition and narrative psychology 66
Summary 68
5 On representation 69
Experience as a representational form 72
An interlude: one more time on literature 74
Returning to the forms of representing experience 75
Allusion 76
The formulation and return of experience in narratives 78
Dissemination of representations 79
Narrative spreading 82
Summary 84
6 Theory of social representations 86
The functions of social representations 89
The processes of social representations 1: anchoring 90
The processes of social representations 2: objectification 91
The relationship of social representations theory with traditional theories of social psychology 92
The empirical study of social representations 97
The use of the narrative train of ideas in social representations research 99
How narrative approach contributes to the explanatory potential of social representations 104
Identity and social representation 106
Personal identity 107
Social identity 108
Group identity and the representation of the social world 108
Group identity as the demarcation of group boundaries 110
Summary 115
7 Identity and narrative 116
McAdams' model for analysing autobiographies 117
Barclay's model for analysing the coherence of autobiographical narrative 118
High ego: Complex ideology, more questioning 119
High ego: Integrated imagos 119
The roots of knowledge about the self 121
Narrative ideas in the research on self-development 122
Trauma and narrative 124
Therapeutic narratives 125
Life story as a social construct 126
Life stories or stories from life: significant life events 126
Summary 128
8 Language and soul 129
Language and world view 129
Linguistic forms and forms of thinking 130
Content analysis 131
Language and personality 131
Language and situation 132
The automation of content analysis 133
Targeted interviews 134
Narrative interview 135
Summary 137
9 Narrative psychological content analysis 138
Characters and their functions 138
Control of spatial-emotional distance 141
Narrative perspective 142
The role of time in the narrative 145
Narrative evaluation 148
Narrative coherence 150
Psychological interpretations of self-reference 151
Negation 152
The computerization of content analysis in narrative psychology 153
Reliability and validity studies of the narrative content-analytic programs 154
What do we measure when testing validity? 154
Summary 154
10 Social memory and social identity 156
Types of explanation 156
History, narrative, identity: construction and reality 158
Social, collective and cultural representation 159
Collective memory and social representations 159
Group narrative and identity 161
National identity in the mirror of history 163
National identity and historical narrative 163
Two examples: study of Hungarian national identity in the light of folk-historical narratives and of history books 168
Methods of analysis 169
Life trajectory of a nation 170
Folk-historical schemes 172
What was missing from the stories 174
Group agency and responsibility 174
Further steps towards the automated narrative psychological content analysis 175
The representation of common history 176
Summary 177
11 Roots and perspectives of scientific narrative psychology 179
Appendix 184
On Lin-Tag (mtapi.hu/Lin-Tag) 184
Linguistic operationalization of the programs 186
Linguistic operationalization of the perspective forms 188
Linguistic operationalization of the approach-avoidance dimension 190
Validity and reliability studies with the programs 191
Reliability studies of the program modules 193
Validity studies of the program modules 193
Studies with the narrative perspective module 193
Validity study of the emotion regulating function of the narrative perspective module 194
Studies with the Approx-Change program 197
Validity tests of Approx-Change program in clinical and normal samples 197
Validity tests of the Approx-Change module in the stratified normal sample 198
References 207
Index 225
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