Story formed identity seems to be an increasingly prominent way for conceptualizing the self. For the most part discussions about story formed identity appear to have existed as somewhat isolated voices within the respective disciplines of psychology and Christian theology. This essay is a product of bringing the two voices explicitly into dialogue with each other. The discussion in this paper ...

This article presents an innovative narrative inquiry study carried out in a primary school Aotearoa New Zealand with three young people who provide insights into how they perceive, construct, give meaning to, and make sense of their own emotions. The analysis from this research draws on Foucauldian scholarship to examine the narratives that construct about feelings are shaped by dominant psy-d...

From a medical perspective, hearing voices is perceived as a symptom of mental illness and their content as largely irrelevant. The effectiveness of antipsychotic medication has made it central to the treatment of psychosis. However pharmacological treatment alone is rarely sufficient for this disabling condition. This review examined the feasibility of formulating an understanding of the meani...

this ethnography is a dialogic ethnography between field and two researchers. dialogic ethnography or dialogic anthropology was a result of textual revolution in discipline. textual or interpretive anthropology has been definition of culture as text founded in 1970s and 1980s. geertzian textual revolution considered and interpreted events and actions as texts. marcus, clifford, rabinow, crapanz...