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__A New Narrative for Psychology__ is a far-reaching book that seeks to reorient how scholars and laypersons study and think about persons and the goals of psychological understanding. The book provides a challenging critique of contemporary variable-centered, statistical methods, revealing what these approaches to psychological research leave unexplored; it presents readers with a cutting-edge, narrative, approach for getting at the thorny problem of meaning making in human lives. For readers unfamiliar with narrative psychology, this is an excellent first text, which considers the history of narrative psychology and its place in contemporary psychology. The book goes well beyond the basics, however. __A New Narrative for Psychology__ offers a fresh and innovative theoretical perspective on narrative as an active interpretive process that is implicated in most aspects of everyday life, and the ways in which narrative functions to make present and real subjective and inter-subjective experiences. Theory is grounded in vivid illustrations of what can be learned from the intensive study of how persons, in time and space, narrate their experiences, selves, social relationships, and th

Who reads A New Narrative for Psychology (Explorations in Narrative Psychology)?

Author

Brian Schiff

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199332199

Category

health

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14