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A Study On Narrative Therapy And Its Intervening Effect On Prisoners' Prisonalizd Personality

Posted on:2012-05-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S X YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335983503Subject:Applied Psychology
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Narrative therapy is a newly developing psychotherapy of Postmodernist psychotherapy, and it attracts researchers'attention because of its special views on people's psychological problems and intervening concepts. However, there has only been just about 20 years for the development of Narrative therapy since its initiation and its theory and application call for richer research. This research put forward the innovative discourse-construction model on the basis of relative theories. It points out that discourse can be used to construct reality and internalizing one's experience according to postmodernist research. Everybody lives in a certain historical, cultural, and social environment and constructs his/her own experience and connected to the world via discourse under the influence of dominating story. Dominating story will be changed to a thin exhausted problem story when there is a contradiction between live experiences and dominating story. Narrative therapy means to deconstruct one's problem story and to reconstruct a new vivid life story, to help visitors live better. The converting of discourse is of key importance in this process. The aim to point out discourse-construction model is to explain the problem perspective and the intervening perspective of the Narrative therapy. This is displayed through case study. And it enriches and develops Narrative theory. At the same time, Narrative therapy is used to intervening prisoners'prisonalized personality as a case study and it proves to be efficacious based on the revisiting and questionnaires. Meanwhile, it expands the application area of narrative therapy.
Keywords/Search Tags:Narrative therapy, discourse-construction model, discourse, prisonalized personality, case study
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