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Abstract
Speedy provides a necessary introduction to the purposes, possibilities and processes of narrative research methods in therapy practices. Merging social science and arts-based research methods, makes this book ideal for therapy students and practitioners, as well as those providing counselling in other related professional areas.
JANE SPEEDY is senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, where she directs a research centre in narratives and transformative learning. She also teaches narrative and life story research. She has worked in a range of educational and voluntary organizations and continues to maintain a small narrative therapy practice.
'This is an attractively presented, well-structured, highly creative book that addresses a cutting edge topic. It is written by a practitioner and academic well known in this particular field.' - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Preface | xiii | ||
| Narrative Inquiry | xiv | ||
| A Layered Text | xv | ||
| The Discourses of Psychotherapy | xvi | ||
| 1 Introduction: Poststructuralist Ideas and Narrative Inquiry | 1 | ||
| Literatures of the Imagination | 4 | ||
| Standing at the Crossroads between the 'Narrative Turn' and 'Postmodern' Uncertainties | 11 | ||
| Postmodern Times, Poststructuralist Ideas and Socially Constructed Worlds | 14 | ||
| Researching People's Life Stories | 20 | ||
| 2 Reflexivities, Liminalities and other Relationships with 'the Space between Us' | 27 | ||
| Unpacking Reflexivity | 29 | ||
| Exploring Liminal and Creative Places | 31 | ||
| Different Purposes and Practices of Reflexivity and Ways of Generating Liminal Space | 33 | ||
| Where Did I Stand? | 34 | ||
| Embodiment, Embeddedness and Conversation | 37 | ||
| Constructing Reflexivities: Various Practices | 40 | ||
| Reflexivity as an Inexhaustible Invitation towards Liminality | 42 | ||
| 3 Narrative Ethics: Trustworthiness, Accountability and 'Writing Good Stories' | 44 | ||
| Describing Narrative Inquiry | 44 | ||
| The Narrative Invitation | 45 | ||
| Research Integrity within Counselling and Therapy | 48 | ||
| Ethical Practice in Narrative Inquiry – a Reciprocal and Relational Space | 51 | ||
| Telling a Good Story | 52 | ||
| Evaluating this Kind of Work | 55 | ||
| 4 Constructing Stories in Narrative Interviews | 59 | ||
| The Literatures of Narrative Interviewing | 60 | ||
| Therapy/Research Interviewing Overlaps | 62 | ||
| The Contribution of Feminisms | 62 | ||
| Narrative Therapy Practices | 64 | ||
| Interviewing Donald in Context | 68 | ||
| Donald Placing Himself as Someone with a History 'Out of the Box' . . . | 69 | ||
| Note Taking 'In the Moment' | 80 | ||
| In Summary | 83 | ||
| 5 Re-presenting Life Stories | 86 | ||
| Poetic Representation | 87 | ||
| From Research into Therapy Practice | 88 | ||
| Poststructuralist Feminist Contributions | 91 | ||
| Poetic Documents and the Narrative Therapies | 93 | ||
| Constructing Poetic Documents | 95 | ||
| Future Directions | 101 | ||
| 6 Re-telling Stories in Reflecting Teams | 104 | ||
| Re-visioning Reflecting Teamwork | 104 | ||
| Definitional Ceremony | 105 | ||
| Positioning Therapy Outcomes Research Differently | 107 | ||
| Co-researching with Gina, and Others | 109 | ||
| So, What are our Outcomes? | 119 | ||
| 7 Telling and Re-telling Life Stories: Collective Biography Practices | 121 | ||
| Collective Biography | 122 | ||
| Ethical Issues and Accountability | 125 | ||
| Selecting and Constructing this Text | 127 | ||
| Extracts from the Collected Writings of the Unassuming Geeks | 129 | ||
| Future Possibilities and Pitfalls | 135 | ||
| 8 Writing as 'Inquiry': Failing to Come to Terms with Things | 137 | ||
| Writing as Inquiry | 138 | ||
| Various Practices of Writing as Research | 139 | ||
| Opportunities and Constraints for Counselling Researchers | 141 | ||
| Writing this Inquiry | 142 | ||
| 9 Creating and Performing Auto-ethnographies: Some Unfortunate Lapses – a Very Short Story | 155 | ||
| Auto-ethnography, Self-indulgence and Purpose | 156 | ||
| Auto-ethnographic Purposes and Power Relations within Counselling and Psychotherapy Research | 157 | ||
| Performing 'Lapses in my Life' | 159 | ||
| 'Some Unfortunate Lapses in My Life' – a Short One-act Play for One Woman | 162 | ||
| 10 Crossing the Borders between Fiction and Research | 167 | ||
| Consulting and Consorting with Gargoyles | 167 | ||
| Magical Realist Accounts | 170 | ||
| Exotic Tales of the Everyday | 172 | ||
| Performative Alchemies | 177 | ||
| The Alchemist's Meta-phora | 178 | ||
| Afterwords: Electronic and Cinematic Tools and some Future 'Nomadic' Possibilities in Narrative Counselling and Psychotherapy Research | 182 | ||
| Video-papers and Documentaries: the Visual Narrative Turn | 182 | ||
| Nomadic and Digital Texts | 184 | ||
| Complex Narratives: Moving from De-centered to De-human-centred Research and Practice in Therapy | 186 | ||
| References | 189 | ||
| Index | 215 |