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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Self-narratives"”.
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Therapists’ religion: dialogical processes in the self-narratives of Christian clinical and counselling psychologists
… applies the theory of the Dialogical Self to the narratives of five practising Christian clinical and counselling psychologists. It draws on a narrative to allow for process-oriented, context-sensitive interpretation.
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Psychosis: an exploration of intergenerational narratives and family processes
… highlights the important role that family narratives play in how an individual makes sense of themselves and the world around them. Family narratives can also impact how a person makes sense of their illness. Among individuals experiencing psychosis, families play an integral role in their …
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An Examination of the Interrelation of Narrative and Emotion Processes in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Trauma
… narrative-informed approaches to psychotherapy, self-narratives that no longer align with lived experience, and thereby impede coherent meaning-making, often bring individuals into treatment. Exposure to trauma can result in fragmented or disorganized self-narratives, and Emotion-focused Therapy …
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The Vernacularisation of Modern Neurosciences: A Case Study of Neuro-Autobiographies in The Age of Complexity
… disorders, mental illness, and ultimately the self. Taking this social phenomenon into account, this dissertation examines how neuroscientific knowledge may get entangled, enfolded, unfolded as in the case study of self-narratives written by professional women with neurological conditions which …
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Composing the self: examining dynamics of meaning and agency in narratives of authenticity and self-transformation
… study examined how autobiographical narratives of authentic, inauthentic, and transformative experiences relate to retrospective self-attributions of meaning and agency. Narratives were analyzed using established deductive thematic coding schemes alongside a novel system designed to …
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Narratives on the course of schizophrenia : client and family reflections on process and the impact on self
… methodology was employed to explore the narratives of clients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. These were used to obtain a subjective perspective on the course of schizophrenia and its impact on a person's sense of self Narratives from a nominated relative provided an alternative …
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Signaling Dynamic Authenticity as a Leader
… leader. At its core, authenticity involves being self-referential. It implies that knowing oneself is a prerequisite to being true to oneself. One’s numerous selves morph into self-concepts and build an individual’s self-monitoring personality, interconnected with one’s impression management. …
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Cafeteria, Commissary and Cooking: Foodways and Negotiations of Power and Identity in a Women’s Prison
… experience of incarceration by analyzing women’s narratives about prison food and eating. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 formerly incarcerated women in New Haven, CT. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed. Findings explain the different ways that inmates …
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Design considerations for an AI-prompted “Future-Self” video journaling tool to enhance self-efficacy
This study explores a self-management digital solution designed to empower individuals struggling with emotional self-regulation. With a focus on increasing self-efficacy in specific areas or goals, the study proposes an 'AI-prompted future selfie-video journaling tool' to guide users through the …
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Breaking the Republic in Half? Black Worldmaking Practices in Contemporary France
… main locations of analysis: rap, black women’s self-narratives in film and literature, and afrofeminist organising and theatre performances. First, I posit that French rap intervenes into discourses around the nation and belonging to make sense of identities constructed as contradictory or …
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Writing the self with others: collaborative photobiography in the 21st century
… the word designates, by its very construction, a self-written account of one’s own life. By this definition then, autobiography is a genre that categorically excludes plurivocal narration. What then, should we make of life stories recounted by multiple authors? How do we account for self-written …
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The Construction of Self-identity and Positive Behavioural Change in Pregnant and Parenting Young Women
… between the narrative construction of self-identity and positive change in antisocial behaviour in pregnant and parenting young women. It focused on two related aspects of identity development: (1) individuals’ conceptualizations of their personally salient self-values; and (2) …
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Voicing the silence: the maternity care experiences of women who were sexually abused in childhood.
… synthesised findings, translating the women’s narratives into a more readily accessible form. The main themes identified were: narratives of self, narratives of relationship, narratives of context and the childbirth journey. Medical records provided an additional narrative and data source …
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Marriage safe and sound: subjectivity, embodiment and movement in the production space of television in Turkey
… an outcome of the global flow of media images, narratives and genres. As such, it is a television show that translates the neoliberal imaginary of the self as an aspect of subjectivity in search of survival, security and happiness, into the Turkish context. What distinguishes the marriage show …
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Imagining and performing The Self in NAZI Germany: Leisure and travel in the correspondence of Hilde Laube and Roland Nordhoff, 1938-39
… and expressed their identities through the self-narratives created in their letters. They particularly showed how they defined themselves in their narratives of leisure and travel. They frequently incorporated their travel experiences into their narratives in order to imagine aspects of …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… that is inevitable yet necessary to shaping selfhood. The approach of this doctoral study is inspired by cognitive literary studies, an interdisciplinary approach to literature that takes insights from cognitive science. Recent developments in cognitive science have given us new vocabulary …
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Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program
… program. The CBSP is a sacred story space where narratives and narrative fragments are shared, redeemed, and hope is germinated. The data revealed that communication processes, especially narrative, at the CBSP are central to the emergence of hope for participants. The findings of this study …
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Behind the Door: A Study of Cell-Sharing, Wellbeing and Coping in Prison
… activity that is important for individuals’ self-narratives and sense of wellbeing, such as the reflexive project of the self (Giddens, 1991). It is argued that in order to understand how people respond to cell-sharing and, consequently, its impact on wellbeing, it is necessary to examine how …
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Feeling Time Differently: Autistic Temporality, Self-Care Technologies & Social Imaginaries of the Good Life
… entanglements, particularly digital self-tracking tools, assistive technologies, and alternative communication strategies, I argue that autistic individuals engage in an ongoing (re)configuration of temporal experiences – both accommodating and resisting neurotypical pressures of …
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Bodyweight and Shape in Early Modern Germany c. 1480-1620
… wider discussions concerning religion, gender, selfhood and society. Expansive size as a demonstration of power and riches did hold increasing significance in Germany in this period, yet this fashionable male silhouette developed out of the late fifteenth century ideal for slender and elongated …
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