Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology

PETER EMERSON is Senior Practitioner (Family Therapy) at the Unthank Family Centre, Norwich, UK. He holds an MSc in Family Therapy from the Tavistock Clinic and a PhD from Birkbeck College and has previously published on drug and solvent abuse.STEPHEN FROSH is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was formerly Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean of the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of many books and articles, especially concerning the use of psychoanalysis in social and cultural contexts

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as 'sexually abusive', analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.