Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding identity : what it is and what it does -- Hierarchizing identities : techniques of nationalization -- Metaphors and selves : forefathers, roots, and the voice of the people -- Emplotting the nation : the narrative structures of patriotism -- Heroic nationalism and the necessity of war from King David to George W. …”

“…Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele, die vom mittelalterlichen Europa bis hin zum gegenwärtigen Indien reichen, unterschiedlichen Aspekten von Kulturen des Entscheidens nach. Sie nehmen Narrative und Praktiken des Entscheidens ebenso in den Blick wie den Einsatz von Ressourcen in Prozessen des Entscheidens und diskutieren Ansätze, Entscheiden in einer geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive zu analysieren. …”

“…Rhetorics of Belonging examines the diverse ways in which Palestinian and Israeli world writers have responded to the expectation that they will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice. …”

“…"Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures explores identity and American culture through hybrid, prose work by women, and expands the strategies of cultural poetics practices into the study of innovative narrative writing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Empathy and healing : aspects of spiritualist ritual -- Bodily madness and the spread of the blush -- The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause -- Women and affliction in Maharstra : a hydraulic model of health and illness -- Anthropology and psychiatry : the uneasy alliance -- Remembering and forgetting : anthropology and psychiatry : the changing relationship -- A historical disorder : neurasthenia and the testimony of lives in Latvia -- Narratives of the body and history : illness in judgement on the Soviet past -- From damaged nerves to masked depression : inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives -- Looking for a subject : Latvian memory and narrative -- The expropriated harvest : narratives of deportation and collectivization in north-east Latvia -- Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memory -- Arguing with the KGB archives : archival and narrative memory in post-Soviet Latvia -- Varieties of deception and distrust : moral dilemmas in the ethnography of psychiatry…”

Materias:

“…The business world in recent years has shown increasing interest in the narrative lens and more specifically in the relationship between leadership storytelling and organizational change…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Straight Talk: An Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Emergence of Feminist Postmodern Psychology; Chapter 2 - Life Stories: Pieces of a Dream; Chapter 3 - Gendered Narratives: Bodies under Construction; Chapter 4 - Talking about Menopause: A Dialogue; Chapter 5 - Social Ghosts: Opening Inquiry on Imaginal Relationships; Chapter 6 - Gaze and the Naked Maja: Si(gh)tes for Controversy; Part II - Performative Psychology: Whys and Whereabouts; Chapter 7 - Woman as Spectacle, or Facing off: Cavorting With Carn-ival Knowledge…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives; Contents; Introduction; 1 When All the World was Slime; 2 The Self is a Telling: A Child's Tale of Alien Abduction; 3 Jeffrey the Dog: A Search for Shared Meaning; 4 All that Glitters is not Gold: The Adoption Process as a Rite of Passage; 5 In the Wake of the Monster: When Trauma Strikes; 6 The Wounded Hero; 7 Finding the Way Back Home: Children's Stories of Family Attachment; 8 The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Tracking a Life; 9 The Biography Laboratory: Co-creating in Community; Contributors; Subject Index; Name Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trauma, the Body and Transformation: A Narrative Inquiry; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; EDITORS' FOREWORD; FOREWORD; INTERACTING STORIES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Cybernetics and family therapy; CHAPTER TWO The roots of constructivist systemic therapy: nothing convinces like success; CHAPTER THREE Beliefs, accounts, and narratives; CHAPTER FOUR Choosing narratives and interacting; CHAPTER FIVE Dominant narratives- social constructionist perspectives; CHAPTER SIX Narratives, distortions, and myths; CHAPTER SEVEN Evolving and dissolving problems: a co-constructional approach; REFERENCES; INDEX…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Personal construct psychotherapy: forerunner of constructivist psychotherapies; Chapter 2 Psychological constructivism and constructivist trends in psychotherapy; Chapter 3 A constructivist understanding of the person; Chapter 4 The therapist's understanding of the client; Chapter 5 The therapist's construction of the client's narrative; Chapter 6 An ontological venture: the psychotherapy process; Glossary; References; Author index; Subject index…”

“…She views narratives of widows, widowers, and bereaved domestic gay and lesbian partners from a postmodern perspective that breaks away from the traditional belief that the living must detach themselves from the dead in order to move on with their lives. …”