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Pazera, Edyta. "Hidden stories : self-injury, hope, and narratives." Thesis, City University London, 2012. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/11785/.
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The widespread perception of self-injury places an emphasis on the negative aspects of this behaviour. It is seen by many as a dangerous, self-destructive act, and psychopathology. However, there is a lesser-known view that constructs selfinjury as a hopeful behaviour, through which a person attempts to communicate his/her own emotional states. This research aims to explore how people who selfinjure construct hope in their narratives about self-injury in order to deepen the understanding of the self-injurious behaviour. As the researcher was interested in the individuals’ subjective experience, the qualitative method of inquiry was deemed to be most appropriate. Eight individuals took part in narrative interviews. The Narrative Analysis method was employed to analyse the data. This process revealed a new type of narrative, called a cyclical narrative. The results showed that the self-injury story is the cyclical narrative. Four main themes were identified within this narrative, namely ‘Experienced Chaos’, ‘Self-injury – The Way to Tell the Story, ‘Resolution of the Story – the Paradox of “I’m good”’, and ‘The Story Continues…’. These themes correspond to the stages in self-injury stories, which are experienced by the participants in cycles. The participants described experiencing chaos, despair and hopelessness, and then self-injuring in order to end the chaos and get to a point where they felt good/better. In this context, selfinjury is understood as a pathway of hope and the thoughts of the act of self-injury are identified as an agency thinking of hope. The goal of self-injury here is to get to the uncertain, yet highly desired, point of feeling better, and this also gives rise to the feeling of hope that life can carry on. However, these feelings did not last long and the whole cycle of chaos, despair, hopelessness, self-injury, and hope got repeated. The self-injury story does not have any real resolution or end. In this context, self-injury is seen as a way of telling a story about the chaos and underlying suffering. The experiences of chaos gave rise to feelings of hopelessness, and self-injury was presented as a way to end this state and as an attempt to restore hope in the narrators’ lives. These findings are discussed drawing on narrative theory. Furthermore, some limitations of this research and recommendations for future studies directions are offered. The implications of findings for clinical practice and research are also discussed.
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Turbuck, Christopher James. "Personal Narratives." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/turbuck/TurbuckC0508.pdf.
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This body of work is comprised of autobiographical narratives from my everyday experiences. The conflict in the stories comes both from without and within: awkward, frustrating situations force perplexed responses from the protagonist (me) even as I struggle to maintain internal balance between combative contradictory thoughts and impulses. I adopt many conventions from comic books. They allow me to freely incorporate text and image into the same pictorial space. Additionally, the comic book form possesses associations with \"low art\" that are valuable to my work. Comics are entertaining and non-threatening - they are perceived as childish and frivolous, and are accessible to a mass audience. I use the formal devices of comic books to raise the viewer/reader\'s expectations for a lighthearted, juvenile form of entertainment. However, once the viewer/reader examines the work more closely, I give them something else: a new way of looking at regular life that reveals the profound in the ordinary; a chance to identify with my awkward, deeply personal experiences; a quiet note of encouragement that none of us is truly alone.
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Kranstuber, Haley Ann. "Let's Start at the Beginning: The Relationship between Entrance Narratives and Adoptees' Self Concepts." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1217370913.
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Isler, William C. (William Charles). "Premorbid Level of Functioning and Perspective Taking During Self-Narratives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504437/.
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Two interviews were conducted with 20 participants from a Mental Health and Mental Retardation (MHMR) crisis house. Subjects were classified as good or poor premorbid level of functioning using a case history form and information from their social history charts. The study employed a self-narrative method to direct self disclosure. In the first interview, participants were asked to describe themselves. In the second interview they were asked to identify what they would change about their histories and to describe how this would make a difference in how their lives turned out. Support was not found for the hypothesis that those with the higher premorbid functioning would be better able to shift perspectives and use more positive self constructs. Methodological, theoretical and future research areas are discussed.
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Beauchamp, Alexandra L. "The Fantasy Self: Relationships between Self-Guides and Experience-Taking in Fictional Narratives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471875575.
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Potts, Sonja K. "Therapists' religion : dialogical processes in the self-narratives of Christian clinical and counselling psychologists." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/115823.
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The aim of this study was to explore the therapists' personal religious and spiritual belief systems and the impact of these on their work. The literature reviewed included material regarding the role of religion and spirituality in relation to psychology and therapy, identity, and especially, the person of the therapist. The present qualitative investigation applies the theory of the Dialogical Self to the narratives of five practising Christian clinical and counselling psychologists. It draws on a narrative to allow for process-oriented, context-sensitive interpretation.
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Gieseke, William D. "Contested stories self-narratives of children of divorced parents /." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 2006. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/gieseke_2006.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2006.A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Silberklang, L. M. "Holocaust survivors : experiences of displacement and narratives of self." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1352452/.
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Looking at Displaced People (predominantly Jewish) after the Second World War, the dissertation begins by problematising and broadening the term ‘displacement’, from its UNRRA definition (primarily geopolitical) to embrace profound existential concerns. It then explores potential trends in the ways in which DPs reacted to new challenges posed by the ‘initiatory crisis’ of liberation. Considering factors such as age, role, rupture, emigration, the changing role of global perceptions of the ‘Holocaust survivor’ and the formal constraints and idiomatic influences at work in ordering and recording memory for consumption by projected audiences, it argues for the validity of memoirs and testimonies as a primary source-base, revelatory of patterns in behaviour and belief systems that an analysis based on outward behaviour alone might overlook. Through close attention to the life stories of survivors, situated amid contextualising detail, it will be seen that the DP population emerging from the Holocaust constitutes a unique and historically fascinating group in terms of representing a collective and sustained form of grappling with the nature of experience, memory, community, and value. The study develops and suggests extrapolation of a new vocabulary of terms dealing with processes of narrativisation which may be of wider applicability.
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Waliaula, Kennedy Athanasias. "The Incarcerated Self: Narratives of Political Confinement in Kenya." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243912226.
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Uesugi, Takeshi. "Slippery bridge : Chinese diaspora and narratives of self and community." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79983.
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This thesis examines the identities and the narratives of Overseas Chinese. Through discussing their history, I explore how the overseas Chinese came to imagine themselves as a community called 'Chinese Diaspora', which is ostensibly held together by the imagination of a 'homeland' in a faraway place in the distant past. By examining autobiographical texts, I discuss how the 'Chineseness' they maintained throughout the migration is founded upon such a virtual reality, and how this in turn is experienced by the individuals. Taking the narratives as something that both reflect and construct their identities, I explore the conundrum women in diaspora face in representing their own experiences of the community on the basis of Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir. Chinese women of diaspora have particular difficulties in claiming their individuality through narrations, especially because the community that sustains the 'traditional' Chineseness is rapidly transforming.
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Sinclair, Julia M. A. "Deliberate self-harm : outcome, health service use and parents' narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436953.
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Sayigh, Rosemary. "Palestinian camp women's narratives of exile : self, gender, national crisis." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7019.
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Hermer, Carol A. "Performing our pasts : representing history, representing self /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6426.
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Pascali, Lara. "Baby books and childhood narratives writing the self through material culture /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 87 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338863541&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Jansen, Stefaan. "Anti-nationalism : post-Yugoslav resistance and narratives of self and society." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5397.
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Houvouras, Shannon Krista. "Negotiated concepts body, mind, emotions and self in women's childbearing narratives /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004329.
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Camacho-Higareda, Manuel. "Evaluation strategies and presentation of the self in narratives about bullfight." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502126.
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Haenninen, Kirsi. "The Construction of Self in Finnish First-person Supernatural Encounter Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261592657.
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Berglund, Johannes. "Narratives of Desistance : A Social Cognitive Approach." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58196.
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In this thesis I have investigated the process of self-schematic transformation that has been argued that offenders undergo in order to desist from crime. In this thesis I have used narrative interviews with twelve desisting offenders consisting of five non-violent offenders and seven violent offenders. I have analysed these narratives using a social cognitive perspective in order to seek an understanding of the self-schemas of the offenders. The results show that the desistance is the result of a longer process and the turning point experienced by the participants were the high point of this process. Social influences were highly important for both groups. Both groups were low in agency, with the exception to their new selves and the desisting process; still, the violent offenders were somewhat higher than the non-violent offenders. In general both groups used outside sources to explain their past crimes and substance abuse, though the violent offenders did this in less extent. Further, the analysis showed that the self-schema of the desisting offenders could be divided into three parts; the former self, the true self, and the new self, or who they used to be, who they have always been, and who they are now. The degree to which the offenders expressed these different selves varied between the two groups.
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Fraser, Kathryn. "The makeover and other consumerist narratives /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82875.
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"The Makeover and Other Consumerist Narratives" is an interdisciplinary work in both approach and scope, and reads the construction of feminine desire and identity through what is popularly known as the makeover. Bringing together such diverse areas as film, literature, women's magazines, psychoanalysis, historical analysis and cultural theory, this research is particularly concerned with visual communications media (mostly film and advertising) and spectatorship. Of central import is the relationship of consumerism to feminine identity, desire, and the historical emergence of popular entertainments aimed directly at women.The narrative of the makeover---so prevalent in women's magazines and advertising---works to effectively orient women's desires in a consumerist direction through product promotion and self-commodification. In addition, the makeover is explored in terms of how it might be seen to provide a model by which to understand the workings of late consumer capitalism as a whole. From an excavation of the official commodity-oriented origins of the makeover in the history of women's magazines, the project then moves through a reading of several print advertisements and the phenomenon of the consumer tie-in, and finally to what I call the "Transformation Film." Questions of narrative, desire and class are key here, especially insofar as these films make explicit the connection between self-transformation, commodity consumption, feminine desire and the promise of identity in consumer culture.
At issue is the peculiar problematic of feminine desire as negotiated by Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as the historical implications of female identity as explainable by Marxian commodity theory. It is only by means of examining the objects which cater to feminine desire that we may be able to understand this "culture of the makeover" and women's identity therein.
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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell. "Writing the "self-determined" life representing the self in disability narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1147369805.
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Richmond, Kim Treharne. "Re-capturing the self : narratives of self and captivity by women political prisoners in Germany 1915-1991." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5493.
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This project represents one of the few major pieces of research into women’s narratives of political incarceration and is an examination of first person accounts written against a backdrop of significant historical events in twentieth-century Germany. I explore the ways in which the writers use their published accounts as an attempt to come to terms with their incarceration (either during or after their imprisonment). Such an undertaking involves examining how the writer ‘performs’ femininity within the de-feminising context of prison, as well as how she negotiates her self-representation as a ‘good’ woman. The role of language as a means of empowerment within the disempowering environment of incarceration is central to this investigation. Rosa Luxemburg’s prison letters are the starting point for the project. Luxemburg was a key female political figure in twentieth-century Germany and her letters encapsulate prevalent notions about womanhood, prison, and political engagement that are perceptible in the subsequent texts of the thesis. Luise Rinser’s and Lore Wolf’s diaries from National Socialist prisons show, in their different ways, how the writer uses language to ‘survive’ prison and to constitute herself as a subject and woman in response to the loss of self experienced in incarceration. Margret Bechler’s and Elisabeth Graul’s retrospective accounts of GDR incarceration give insight into the elastic concept of both the political prisoner and the ‘good’ woman. They demonstrate their authors’ endeavours to achieve a sense of autonomy and reclaim the experience of prison using narrative. All of the narratives are examples of the role of language in resisting an imposed identity as ‘prisoner’, ‘criminal’ and object of the prison system.
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Sen, Simonti. "Travels to Europe self and other in Bengali travel narratives, 1870-1910 /." New Delhi : Orient Longman, 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60534669.html.
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Elewa, Salah Ahmed. "In search of the other/self : colonial and postcolonial narratives and identities /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262130.
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Morris, Sarah H. Benson Jennifer Yasinski Carly. "Narratives of romantic rejection the effect of implicit theories and self-esteem /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1565.
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Ross, Genesis. "Black Deathing to Black Self-Determination: The Cultivating Substance of Counter-Narratives." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1617984242373826.
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Gathu, Karina Marie. "Exploring LDS Missionary Blogs: How Culture Manifests in Self-Narratives of Foreign Missionaries." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5690.
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Missionaries serving in foreign countries provide a unique perspective on culture that they chronicle on public blogs. A content analysis of these blogs showed that missionaries use their own cultural and religious frame to make observations, some good and some bad, about cultural habits and beliefs foreign to their own. Through the medium of blogging, we see how missionaries use self-narratives to understand and make sense out of differences in culture and beliefs that ultimately impact how they identify themselves.
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Scandale, Joanne Bellini James L. "The tenuous self Narratives of individuals who have experienced mild traumatic brain injuries /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Goldman, Joanne Beth. "Narratives of living with diabetes, an examination of self, identity, and the body." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ28789.pdf.
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Jardine, Kathryn Frances. "Transitions of women counsellors-in-training, self-defining memories, narratives, and possible selves." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0017/NQ32711.pdf.
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Hepworth, Rosemary Rita. "The uses of the avatar : the mediated self in women's narratives across media." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610679.
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Rivas, Mónica Gaglio. "Resistance and the construction of identity in three Latina narratives of self-discovery /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018390.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-200). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Benson, Jennifer Morris Sarah H. Yasinski Carly. "Growth in narratives of romantic rejection differences in self-esteem and implicit theories /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1565.
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Haro, Zelda. "Narratives of Successful Navigation: A Sociocultural Study of Self-identified Latin@ Undergraduate Students." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20699.
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Narratives of successful navigation are the personal stories of 13 Latin@ undergraduate students who navigated the public school system and completed high school in the United States. Their words recount their individual journeys resulting in their enrollment at a 4-year research university in the Pacific Northwest as opposed to a 2-year community college. More than half of the study respondents begun their postsecondary studies at a community college. The navigation of these particular individuals were experienced differently than those respondents whose trajectory led them straight into the university. Three categories corresponding to the study’s three research questions were analyzed. First, common challenges produced two themes, low social economics status (SES) and ethnic identity. Second, the category on persistence characteristics formulated only one construct, academic self-efficacy. Third, three interlocking themes of supportive factors fostering academic success were identified, the support of parents/ family members/peers, non-familial agents in the form of teachers, and lastly college readiness including AP or honors coursework. The thematic analysis of the respondents’ stories was influenced by the literature that documents challenges historically impeding Latin@ academic achievement and by the research on both persistence and supportive factors. The analyses of the individual navigational experience of the study participants found similarities within their experiences, but it also revealed the complexity of their own singular stories. The study centered more on the aspirations of Latin@ students rather than the damaging effects of their schooling experiences. While some of the respondents’ stories contain examples of challenges, the premise was in representing examples of successful navigation of the Chican@/Latin@ education pipeline (Solórzano, 1998).
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Pateridou, Georgia. "Yannis Psycharis's Greek novels (1888-1929) : didactic narratives, cultural views and self-referentiality." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7669/.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine Psycharis's Greek novels by focusing on his modes of writing and the ideas manifested in them. Psycharis saw his role as that of an intellectual aiming to reform Greek culture and he fought consistently for the establishment of the demotic - as he understood it as the language of literature. Yet his novels serve as a filter not only for his views on language and literature, but also for other social and philosophical issues of relevance to his time, and even to contemporary readers. I have defined three major areas for examination: the didacticism of the novels, expressed in the themes and in the narrative techniques employed by the author; the overall recurring cultural views presented in them, and the preoccupation with the importance of fiction, the role of literature and of the prose writer. The novels will be examined in chronological order and I shall address each of the three major areas explained above in turn, emphasising the most prominent one in each case. The objective of this thesis is to make Psycharis's Greek novels better known and to indicate the role that he played in the development of Modern Greek prose and culture.
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Watson, Cate. "Language to the second degree : narratives of self and identification in the academy." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2007. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=217934.
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This thesis concerns institutional identifications. It starts from a premise that identities emerge in and through narrative and sets out to explore the links between narrative, identity and discourse from the point of view of someone embarking on a research career in the University. Not that it started out that way. To begin with I was interested in the professional identifications of teachers, having recently been a teacher myself. But following the move to a lecturing post in the School of Education it became apparent that I was losing my identity as a teacher and instead developing an identification as a researcher within what I have referred to as ‘the University at the time of the RAE' (Research Assessment Exercise). As this happened I realised I had been presented with an opportunity to investigate these processes of identification from the inside out as I moved from being a teacher, to becoming a researcher. In doing this I developed two main strategies: in one strand of the research I interviewed teachers to gather narratives of practice, because in that way I could investigate the processes involved in doing ‘being a researcher' — gathering and analysing data, writing research publications, presenting research at conferences (as well as applying the theoretical concepts I developed as part of this research to my own situation); and I started to gather data relating to my work within the academy, that positioned me as a researcher. This strand of the research made use of an autoethnographic methodology that I called ‘participant self observation'. In this way I observed what I did as a researcher and how I related to the discourse in which I was enmeshed. The structure of the thesis reflects this doubled approach: the findings from the research with teachers have been written up and presented as research papers; and this is set against texts developed from the autoethnograph research. I refer to this as an ‘anacoluthonic' structure i.e. a disjunction in the PhD which serves to open up a critical space for the examination of research and the PhD as text itself. The aims of the research are therefore: To explore processes of identification in the academy and the ways in which such identifications are narrated; Through the presentation and analysis of texts to evoke ‘a self in the academy. To examine, reflexively, the methodological processes involved in order to develop a critique of the research; The research draws on the approach to discourse analysis developed by Laclau and Mouffe (1985), which is linked to a Lacanian concept of subjectivity; and makes use of the theoretical notion of ‘interpellation' as set out by Althusser (1971). The thesis also draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987, 2004 [1979]). Narratives are posited as being the means by which individuals are linked to discourses and narrative is thus theorised as being an ideological process with reductive properties. Within this framework a theoretical concept of identification is developed which discusses resistance/complicity and agency/autonomy as key factors.
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Young, Sandra Michele. "Negotiating truth, freedom and self : the prison narratives of some South African women." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18833.
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The autobiographical prison writings of four South African women - Ruth First, Caesarina Kana Makhoere, Emma Mashinini and Maggie Resha - form the focus of this study. South African autobiography is burdened with the task of producing history in the light of the silences enforced by apartheid security legislation and the dominance of representations of white histories. Autobiography with its promise of 'truth' provides the structure within which to establish a credible subject position. In chapter one I discuss the use of authenticating devices, such as documentary-like prose, and the inclusion in numerous texts of the stories of others. Asserting oneself as a (publicly acknowledged) subject in writing is particularly difficult for women who historically have been denied access to authority: while Maggie Resha's explicit task is to highlight the role women have played in the struggle, her narrative must also be broadly representative, her authority communal. As I discuss in chapter two, prison writing breaks the legal and psychological silences imposed by a hostile penal system. In a context of political repression the notion of the truth becomes complicated, because while it is important to be believed, it is also important, as with Ruth First, not to betray her comrades and values. The writer must therefore negotiate with the (imagined) audience if her signature is to be accepted and her subjectivity affirmed. The struggle to represent oneself in the inimical environment of prison and the redemptive value in doing so are considered in chapter three. The institution of imprisonment as a means of silencing political dissidence targets the body, according to Michel Foucault's theories of discipline and control explored in chapter four. Using the work of Lois McNay and Elizabeth Grosz I argue in chapter five that it is necessary also to pay attention to the specificities of female bodies which are positioned and controlled in particular ways. I argue, too, using N. Chabani Manganyi, that while anatomical differences provide the rationale for racism and sexism, the body is also an instrument for resisting negative cultural significations. For instance, Caesarina Kana Makhoere represents her body as a weapon in her political battle, inside and outside prison. The prison cell itself is formative of subjectivity as it returns an image of criminality and powerlessness to the prisoner. Following the work of human geographers in chapter six I argue that space and subjectivity are mutually constitutive, as shown by the way spatial metaphors operate in prison texts. The subject can redesign hostile space in order to represent herself. As these texts show, relations of viewing are crucial to self-identification: surveillance disempowers the prisoner and produces her as a victim, but prisoners have recourse to alternative ways of (visually) interacting in order to position the dominators as objects of their gaze, through speaking and then also through writing. Elaine Scarry's insights into torture are extended in chapter seven to encompass psychological torture and sexual harassment: inflicting bodily humiliation, as well as pain, on the body, brings it sharply into focus, making speech impossible. By writing testimony and by generating other scenes of dialogue through which subjectivity can be constructed (through being looked at and looking, through having the message of self affirmed in the other's hearing) it is possible to contain, in some way, the horror of detention and to assert a measure of control in authoring oneself. For Mashinini this healing dialogue must take place within an emotionally and ideologically sympathetic context. v For those historical subjects who have found themselves without a legally valued identity and a platform from which to articulate the challenge of their experience, writing a personal narrative may offer an invaluable chance to assert a truth, to reclaim a self and a credibility and in that way to create a kind of freedom. Bibliography: pages 173-182.
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Korson, Cadey. "Mapping Narratives of Self-Determination, National Identity, and (Re)balancing in New Caledonia." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1443154738.
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Walley, Linda. "Survival narratives : a means of protecting the self from the threats of psychosis." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31284.
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A grounded theory methodology is used to investigate people with psychotic experiences' constructions of their mental health problems. In-depth interviews were conducted on a sample of 9 people who had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The focus of these interviews was on participants' understanding of the difficulties which had brought them into contact with psychiatric services, and their beliefs about mental illness and schizophrenia in general. The methodological approach taken in this research contrasts with the traditional research in this area (on insight) which assumed that deviations from the expert view of a psychosis were either deficiencies or distortions of knowledge and were in fact a symptom of an underlying pathology. Furthermore, this research challenges the notion that the discourse of people experiencing psychosis is meaningless and unintelligible, and that it should be ignored, discouraged or modified. This research suggests that people with psychosis may develop narratives to account for their subjective experiences of psychotic phenomena in the context of meanings which are available in their culture and in the context of relationships with important others both past and present. The survival narratives evident in this research embodied the struggle that people with psychosis have in maintaining a positive identity, when the core areas of that identity are challenged both by their actual mental health problems as well as the stereotypes and prejudices of mental illness and schizophrenia found in society and in the psychiatric system. Professionals working with people with psychosis must be alert to the negative impact that these social constructions potentially have on people's self-concept and identities, and begin to address this secondary disability both in their individual work and on a systemic level.
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Fowler, Lori Ann Moore Ami R. "Breast implants for graduation? parent and adolescent narratives /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-6111.
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Freitas, Maria Leidiane Tavares. "Narrativas de si em cena: a dramaturgia das interaÃÃes no twitter." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15167.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorA presente tese teve como objetivo o estudo da interaÃÃo dos sujeitos nas redes sociais da web â o Twitter, no caso especÃfico de nosso trabalho â a partir da anÃlise das narrativas de si que estes publicam em seus perfis. Para tanto, estabelecemos, como objetivos especÃficos, a descriÃÃo da estrutura das narrativas de si publicadas em segmentos de cento e quarenta caracteres â expediente formal do Twitter â, a anÃlise das estratÃgias dramatÃrgicas de que os sujeitos se valem para a construÃÃo de suas narrativas de si no Twitter e a anÃlise do movimento interativo que os sujeitos deflagram a partir de uma autoapresentaÃÃo narrativa moldada pelas injunÃÃes prÃprias do Twitter. O alicerce teÃrico no qual fundamentamos esses objetivos procede da conjuntura teÃrica que elaboramos ao cotejar as reflexÃes sobre histÃrias de vida e narrativas de si empreendidas por Bruner (2014, 2008), Lejeune (2014), Bertaux (2010), Josso (2012, 2010), Pineau (2006, 2002) e Pineau e LeGrand (2012) com a discussÃo da estrutura da narrativa de experiÃncia apresentada por Labov (1997) e a perspectiva dramatÃrgica das interaÃÃes sociais proposta por Erving Goffman (2013a, 2013b, 2011). A operacionalizaÃÃo dos objetivos da pesquisa se deu por meio de uma abordagem de feiÃÃes etnometodolÃgicas (COULON, 1993), atravÃs da qual chegamos a um corpus constituÃdo por cento e noventa e cinco capturas de tela, compostas por publicaÃÃes em forma narrativa que denominamos tweets-origem, coletadas a partir da observaÃÃo, entre os dias 7 e 17 de dezembro de 2014, da rotina de cem perfis cadastrados no Twitter. Ã luz dessa metodologia, procedemos ao exercÃcio de anÃlise dos dados que nos permitiu a chegar aos seguintes resultados: a emergÃncia de um paralelismo interacional, no qual observamos uma irradiaÃÃo metonÃmica das narrativas de si construÃdas pelos perfis; um investimento em narrativizaÃÃes de temÃticas do cotidiano (trabalho, famÃlia, relacionamentos amorosos, interesse por esportes) e de uma atualizaÃÃo de um passado que evoca essas temÃticas mesmas; uma reconfiguraÃÃo da estrutura da narrativa em prol da dramaturgias postas em movimento na rede, culminando inclusive em formas de burlar o expediente dos cento e quarenta caracteres. Esses resultados nos autorizam a conclusÃo de que, no fluxo interativo, as narrativas sÃo validadas, progredidas e retomadas, de modo que sugerem um investimento dinÃmico que os sujeitos fazem na construÃÃo e manutenÃÃo de seus projetos de autoapresentaÃÃo. Essa conclusÃo nos possibilita afirmar, por fim, que ao longo das mudanÃas de alinhamento ocorridas a propÃsito da narrativa e do reinvestimento na narrativa, os sujeitos constroem uma autoapresentaÃÃo baseada num si de nota entusiÃstica, irÃnica e autodepreciativa.
This thesis aimed to study the interaction of the subjects in the social web networks - Twitter, in the specific case of our work - from the analysis of the self-narratives that they post on their profiles. To this end, we established the following specific objectives: the description of the structure of the self-narratives published in hundred segments and forty characters - formal expedient Twitter -; the analysis of the dramaturgical strategies that subjects rely to build their self-narratives on Twitter; and analysis of interactive movement that subjects trigger from a narrative shaped by self-presentation own injunctions Twitter. The theoretical foundation on which we base these goals proceeds from the theoretical situation that we developed to collate the reflections on life stories and self-narratives undertaken by Bruner (2014, 2008), Lejeune (2014), Bertaux (2010), Josso (2012, 2010) Pineau (2006, 2002) and Pineau and LeGrand (2012) with a discussion of the experience of narrative structure presented by Labov (1997) and the dramaturgical perspective of social interactions proposed by Erving Goffman (2013a, 2013b, 2011). The operationalization of the research objectives was through an approach of ethnomethodological features (COULON, 1993), through which we come to a corpus consisting of one hundred ninety-five screenshots, composed of publications in narrative form what we call tweets-origin, collected from the observation of routine a hundred registered Twitter profiles between 7 and 17 December 2014. In light of this methodology, we proceed to the analysis of the performance data that allowed us to reach the following results: the emergence of an interactional parallelism, in which we observed a metonymic irradiation of the self-narratives built by profiles; an investment in narrativizaÃÃes of everyday topics (work, family, love relationships, interest in sports) and an update of a past that evokes these same themes; a reconfiguration of the structure of the narrative in favor of dramaturgies set in motion on the network, culminating including ways to circumvent the expedient of a hundred and forty characters. These results allow us to conclude that, in the interactive flow, the narratives are validated, progressed and taken so as to suggest a dynamic investment that individuals make in building and maintaining their self-presentation projects. This finding allows us to say, finally, that along the alignment changes regarding the narrative and reinvestment in the narrative, the subjects construct a self-presentation based on a self enthusiastic, ironic and self-deprecating note.
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Job, Teresa. "This might be me : art and the elusive self : a Study of occupational therapists' narratives of the self as therapist." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/73619/.
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This study aimed to explore Occupational Therapists’ narratives of “the self” as a therapeutic agent, linking personal development and insight to professional development as an Occupational Therapist (OT). Three female, newly qualified OTs constructed a series of six arts based narratives, using creative media, over the course of three workshops. The narratives developed from an initial exploration of “the self as therapist” then continued through individual exploration of emergent personal themes. Each pictorial narrative was presented verbally to the group and the presentation and discussion of the images were videotaped. The transcribed stories, alongside the artwork, were analysed and revealed clear evidence that personal narratives have the potential to be active, dynamic processes with important implications for therapeutic practice, education and research. The study highlighted the tension generated by conflict or dissonance between the therapist’s sense of self and their professional role. Exploration of this conflict using art and narrative approaches showed how active story telling around challenging issues can lead to greater personal insight, autonomy and resolution through the re-integration of concealed aspects of the self.
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Chekoudjian, Christiana B. "The Subjective Experience of PMS: A Sociological Analysis of Women’s Narratives." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1895.
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The phenomenon known as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has been researched across many disciplines including Psychology, Women's Health, Women's Studies and Sociology. It has been researched as a personal issue, a health issue, a psychological issue, and a political issue. Underlying these approaches to the study of PMS are two basic paradigms: the medical model and the social constructionist model. A rather polarized debate has emerged between the two. While both approaches have contributed to research on PMS, neither paradigm has focused particular attention on what PMS is and what it means from the perspective of the women who experience it. In this project, I have examined narrative accounts of PMS as told by eight women who identify themselves as women who report experiencing the phenomenon. Findings suggest that these women view PMS as a complex phenomenon. They seem to view this phenomenon as both a "thing," something that has a bodily nature and bodily symptoms, and also as a label. They also seem to view the label as something that can be beneficial because it gives this "thing" a name that is used and accepted in their social worlds. These findings confirm some aspects of previous research while also yielding some new insights into the lived experience of the phenomenon known as PMS.
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Bueno, Yvette. "The Co-Construction of Self-Talk and Illness Narratives: An HIV Intervention Case Study." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/200.
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This case study investigates the co-construction communication patterns that emerged during an Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) intervention designed to reduce negative and critical self-talk. The transcripts of eight sequential acupressure and behavioral (SAB) counseling intervention sessions between a therapist and two medically nonadherent HIV-infected women were analyzed using Giorgi's (1989, 1994, 1997, 2006) phenomeonlogical method of inquiry. The analysis revealed three major themes: "assessing the present," "reviewing the past," and "forging the future," and eight subthemes: "safe atmosphere," "disclosure," "negotiating meaning," "releasing the past," "breaking the past-to-present pattern," "reducing uncertainty," "generating options," and "projecting images." Prior to the intervention sessions, the women reported experiencing negative and critical self-talk and inconsistent medication adherence. Self-talk and illness narrative modifications were evident within and across sessions as the therapist used sequential acupressure and behavioral counseling techniques. During the one month follow-up, the participants reported no experience of negative and critical self-talk and described actions taken toward goals discussed and imagined during the intervention such as medication adherence, exercise, and reenrollment in school. The co-construction themes that emerged in the intervention were consistent with findings in the comforting message literature with specific parallels to the factor analysis findings of Bippus (2001). This work lends support to comforting message research and suggests that distinctions between everyday comforting messages and chronic illness support strategies may be more similar than anticipated. Other study conclusions include clinical and practical implications for people working with HIV-infected individuals.
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Simpson, Audra. "To the reserve and back again : Kahnawake Mohawk narratives of self, home and nation." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84681.
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This dissertation investigates the social and cultural contours of citizenship and nationhood of Kahnawake Mohawks. The central question that I seek to answer is "What other narratives of nationhood and citizenship are there than those of membership in the American or Canadian states?" Mohawks and other Iroquois nations have long asserted their ideological, and in the case of some, economic independence from the governments of Canada and the United States. My multi-sited research illustrates that this historical assertion is more than rhetoric; it is also a practice or " praxis," as Mohawks configure citizenship across the imposed borders that separate their reserves from cities and states from states. This dissertation engages contemporary theories of nationhood, historical and contemporary ethnographic literature on the Iroquois, as well as contemporary literature in political theory and policy to examine the gendered and sometimes racialized contours of Indigenous nationhood and citizenship across borders. Kahnawake Mohawk narratives and the choices that they entail have implications for the way that all "post-colonial" nationals attempt to imagine and construct their place and their membership within and beyond the boundaries of their communities and that of the state.
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Al-Hussamy, Raghad. "Images of self and other the journey to Europe in modern Arabic prose narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215219.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1325. Adviser: Fedwa Malti-Douglas. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 19, 2007)."
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Harris, Raymond. "Mechanics of the soul : the rhetoric of the interrupted self in twentieth-century narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9440.
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SANTOS, LEANDRO DE PAULA. "I PUBLISH, THEREFORE I AM: NARRATIVES OF SELF AND SHARED SURVEILLANCE ON WEB 2.0." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16461@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOREste ensaio investiga como as redes sociais popularizadas na internet nos últimos anos têm consistido em práticas de automodelagem identitária para seus usuários. Escolhendo por recorte o uso que a juventude brasileira faz do website Orkut, o estudo problematiza a categoria identidade pelo viés das narrativas autorreferenciadas. Para tanto, parte-se da hipótese de que as narrativas de si, embora esboçadas em diferentes momentos da história ocidental, ganham vulto no nascimento do período moderno, quando se estabelecem conceitos como os de individualidade e intimidade. Examinados os antecedentes desse processo, são apresentadas consequências da comunicação mediada por computador no cotidiano do indivíduo comum a partir da última década. As redes sociais são então analisadas através do apelo à performance e singularização identitária de seus usuários. A dissertação aborda como a noção de participação e exposição de si, que está na base das iniciativas de compartilhamento de conteúdo da Web 2.0, demarca tensões para as noções de público e privado, fomentando novos comportamentos sociais, valores de alteridade e práticas de vigilância distribuída no ambiente digital. Metodologicamente, o estudo se utilizou de observação participante, análise de dados e de entrevistas com jovens usuários brasileiros de redes sociais.
The essay takes a deep look into how online social networking, made popular on the internet over the last years, arouses practices of identity selfconstruction by its users. Focusing on the use of Orkut website, mostly by Brazilian teenagers and young adults, this study discusses the notion of identity through the history of self-referred narratives. In this aim, it takes the hypothesis that, although narratives of the self were outlined in different periods in Western history, they ascended in the emerging of modern times - when the ideas of individuality and intimacy appeared. After considering these prior facts, this essay presents the consequences of computer-mediated communication in everyday life during the last decade. Then, online social networking is analysed through its appeals to identity performance and customization. The research deals with how participation and exhibition – two factors which plot the platforms of Web 2.0 - set a tension between the notions of public and private, as well as encourage new social behaviours, values of alterity and shared practices of surveillance in the digital context. The research method was based on participant observation, information analysis and interviews with Brazilian young users of online social networking.
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Mastellotto, Lynn A. "Relocation narratives 'Made in Italy' : self and place in late-twentieth century travel writing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48809/.
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At the intersection of life writing and travel writing, relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the inter-subjective and intra-subjective experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales. Lured by the dream of the ‘good life’ abroad, transnational writers detail their post-relocation experiences in autobiographical accounts that seek to educate and entertain global readers about what it means to accommodate to a new life in a new land. This study examines the entwined processes of identity (re)formation and place attachment represented in recent relocation trilogies set in Italy, highlighting the tension between reality and illusion in the pursuit of la dolce vita in the adopted homeland. Focusing on Frances Mayes’s popular Tuscan texts, Annie Hawes’s Ligurian trilogy, and Tim Parks’s memoirs set in Verona, the study addresses how their accommodation over a period of long-term foreign residency is represented in multipart nonfiction accounts. Are their memoirs of ‘becoming Italian’ merely an exercise in social distinction that appropriates Italian ‘authenticity’ and packages it for global tastes? Or does dwelling in cultural difference over time lead to the development of an intercultural competence that is one aspect of an engaged form of cosmopolitanism? A close reading of the language, stylistics, and form of relocation narratives reveals a tension between colonial and cosmopolitan orientations as strategies for cultural representation. By re-positioning themselves across geographic, conceptual, and generic boundaries, relocation writers are mapping out new possibilities for identity-making through new patterns of home-making within contemporary transnational lifestyles. Their deep immersion in place enables the production of situated readings of Italy, Italians and Italianness that avoid essentialising otherness through the recognition of dialogical subjectivities. Keywords: travel writing; autobiography/memoir; lifestyle migration; cosmopolitanism; identity formation.
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Rasslan, Simone Nogueira. "O sujeito-ator e a música na constituição de si : uma perspectiva narrativo – biográfica." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/104492.
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O presente trabalho pretende compreender os modos de subjetivação pelos quais atores tornam-se sujeitos de sua prática musical. O material empírico desta pesquisa são as narrativas dos profissionais das artes cênicas que executam vocal e instrumentalmente as trilhas sonoras de seus espetáculos ao vivo. Foram obtidas, por meio de entrevistas, narrativas individuais com dois participantes e uma entrevista coletiva de seu grupo de trabalho. A abordagem teórica apoia-se nos fundamentos da pesquisa narrativa, principalmente no aporte de Jerome Bruner (2002; 2000) e nos estudos sobre discurso, saber e sujeito de Michel Foucault. A análise dos dados foi realizada com uma inspiração na perspectiva arqueológica foucaultiana, que entende o discurso como prática radicalmente histórica, inseparável das relações de poder, da produção de saber e da produção de sujeitos e subjetividades. As reflexões deste estudo permitiram compreender que a constituição musical do ator é condição inevitável para sua prática profissional; igualmente, que a subjetividade inscrita na apropriação da experiência musical, ao longo da vida, ocorre como cuidado de si e prática de si, e se torna fundamental para o aperfeiçoamento do ofício do ator e para a constituição de si mesmo.This work intends to understand the modes of subjectivation through actors become subjects of their musical practice. The research’s empirical material is the narratives of the drama professionals who perform their plays’ soundtracks in live by using voice and instruments. Narratives were collected through individual narrative interviews with two participants and a collective interview with their work group. The theoretical approach is narrative inquiry fundamentals, particularly Jerome Bruner (2002; 2000) contribution and Michel Foucault studies of discourse, knowledge and subject. The data analysis was inspired by the foucauldian archaeological perspective, that considers discourse as a radically historic practice, inseparable of power relationship, knowledge production and production of subjects and subjectivities. Reflections from this study allowed comprehending that actor musical constitution is inescapable condition for his professional practice; that subjectivity registered in the musical experience appropriation along the life takes place like care of the self and practice of the self, and it becomes fundamental for the actor’s craft improvement and selfconstitution.