The dominance of technological paradigms within psychiatry creates moral and ethical
tensions over how to engage with the interpersonal narratives of those experiencing mental …

Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how
stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of …

Narrative psychiatry empowers patients to shape their lives through story. Rather than
basing diagnosis and treatment solely on the psychiatrist's understanding of biology and …

Contemporary medical anthropology has put increasing emphasis on narrativity in accounts
of suffering and healing (Good, 1994; Kleinman, 1988). The analysis of narrative seems to …

Feminist narrative practice shaped by feminist post-structural critique offers a clearly
articulated integration of theory and direct practice. In this chapter, I will outline the …

This book attempts to 'shake up'the current complacency around therapy and 'mental
health'behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; …

In many ways, the history of psychotherapy is the history of the development of camps or
tribes that often have little that is pleasant to say to each other. Lewis et al.(2000) express …

" Once upon a time, everything was understood through stories.... The philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche once said that'if we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.' …

This article contrasts the Caseness and Narrative approaches for treating individuals who
are psychiatrically labelled. In Caseness a" mental health professional" negatively values …

Telling our own stories of our experiences of distress and madness, of oppression and
treatment, of survival and resistance, is a source of power for people who use or are forced …