Artículo de revista
Phenomenological-narrative contributions to understand the narrative strategies that shape the autobiographical account throughout different moments of the therapeutic process
Date
2018Registration in:
Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome 2018; volume 21:98-115
22398031
10.4081/ripppo.2018.309
Author
Duero, Dante Gabriel
Osorio Villegas, Francisco
Institutions
Abstract
Different studies suggest that the strategies and narrative styles that people use to construct their autobiographical accounts have repercussions
on their self-organization, as well as on their identity experience and their conception of the world. Empirical evidence supports changes
in different aspects related to process, structure, and content in the
narrative of clients during the course of the therapeutic process;
these, in turn, seem to condition the course and the results of the
process. In this paper we will seek to show, based on a case study
and through the application of a method of phenomenological-narrative
analysis, what are the predominant narrative strategies that a
client uses in order to shape her autobiographical narrative in the
initial and final moments of her psychotherapeutic process. Our
data suggest that the narrative strategies at the beginning and end
of the therapy are qualitatively differentiable. Changes are observed
in the plot of the respective accounts, as well as a differentiated
mode in the use of narrative functions. More specifically toward
the end of psychotherapy, the client makes a deeper characterization
of herself and others, based on predicates of a subjectivating, interpretive,
and evaluative-reflective kind. She also predominantly uses
proconcluding metacomments, which could facilitate the integration
of problematic experiences. In summary, our data suggest that
after a successful therapeutic process the client uses more complex
and integrated narrative strategies for the construction of her autobiographical
account.
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