OBJECTIVES A phenomenological study was conducted to gain understanding of the nature of the lived experience of doing occupational therapy. METHOD One hundred and forty-eight occupational therapists nationwide were asked to describe especially satisfying and dissatisfying experiences of practice. The resulting narrative data were analyzed with dimensional analysis techniques. RESULTS With ...

Transactional analysis (TA) is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. The atmosphere that supports transactional analysis is one of comfort, security and respect. A positive relationship is forged between the clinician and the client in order to provide a model for subsequent relationships tha...

BACKGROUND Narrative therapies, especially narrative exposure therapy, are used to treat the effects of trauma in refugees and to prevent psychiatric illness. These methods involve helping the person to tell the story of what happened to them until it no longer elicits anxiety. METHODS We reviewed all quantitative studies related to narrative exposure methods for treating trauma or posttrauma...

This chapter discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the origins of primate (social) intelligence. The relationship between social intelligence and narrative intelligence is outlined, with a particular emphasis on 1) the phylogenetic origins of primate (narrative) intelligence, and 2) the ontogenetic origin of autobiographical stories. The chapter is based on the assumption that in o...

I have worked with several substance-misusing clients who, despite my best efforts, adamantly adhere to their problematic narrative and cannot participate in re-storying their experience in a meaningful manner. The purpose of this article is to outline an alternative technique of using films to help substance-misusing clients generate a positive metaphor for their lived experiences. Using this ...

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This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...