No 4 – December – 2013

The section opens with the definition of fiction: it’s a storytelling, useful both to give organization to own’s internal world both to give meaning to human experience. We then move…

The paper aims to discuss the narrative as a methodological device within a clinical setting for psychological intervention. The authors present the narrative as a process of meaning of the…

The aim of this text is to make an analysis of the clinical case. It is focused not on the content, but on the form, and in particular on the…

In psychoanalysis interpretation is not only the search for meaning in narratives told by the patient, but it’s also an attempt to transform it. Narrative semiotic (Greimas 1970, 1983) analyzes…

The role of narrative in insight-oriented psychotherapy is discussed in four steps. First I introduce some concepts regarding the narrative construction of biography, relating developmental findings of the emergence of…

Many patients with personality disorders feature a series of difficulties in accessing autobiographical memories and recall specific episodes. Their representations of Self and Others are built on rigid and abstracts…

Building upon the central assumptions of narrative theory, namely that psychotherapeutic change entails some form of self-narrative transformation, the Innovative Moments Coding System provides a systematic and reliable method for…

Drawing on a narrative and emotion process model of therapeutic change, Angus & Greenberg (2011) have recently identified a set of specific client utterances and behaviors that are indicators of…

The paper presents the exploration of potential of poetic and narrative creativity, as element of therapeutic process, in a relational psychoanalytic perspective. It meditates on trauma and dissociation, key issues,…