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 experiences. It is always achieved within a cultural context and generates a specific relational proposal towards the interlocutor. From the psychological and clinical point of view, the interest of this contribute concerns the several possibility of transformation of the narrative process, as the goal is not the production of coherent and well packaged narratives. In order to understand complexity and dynamics of the narrative process is necessary to assume perspectives able to capture aspects, specific processes and dynamics of signification. In the light of these intentions, directions for study and use of narratives as a clinical tool are presented in this work. Starting from the contribution of the semiotic disciplines, narrative is observed through different axes of signification (paradigmatic, syntagmatic, pragmatic, pathemic axis) along which it is possible to observe the meaning making through the organization of the text. Furthermore, the distinction between history, telling and narrative/discourse is used in psychological terms to distinguish between different hermeneutics frames and the activating of specific psychological functions (referential, plot and enunciation). This distinction is used to grasp and discuss the reflexive processes and the processes of transformation of the relation between continuity/discontinuity in order to mean experiences and subjective implication within relationships.
Category: No 4 - December - 2013
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