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Author Habermas, Tilmann, author.

Title Emotion and narrative : perspectives in autobiographical storytelling / Tilmann Habermas, Goethe University Frankfurt
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) : illustration (black and white)
Series Studies in emotion and social interaction, second series
Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series.
Contents Emotions -- Narrative structure -- Narrative evaluations -- Narrative perspectives -- Kinds of emotional effects of narratives -- Narrative perspectives guide recipient emotions -- Context and incongruencies also affect emotional response -- Narratives reflect narrators' ability to bear emotions -- The healing power of narrating -- Working through by narrating experiences repeatedly -- Co-narrating emotional events -- Co-narrating in psychotherapy -- Narrative perspectives in emotions
Summary Emotions have a life beyond the immediate eliciting situation, as they tend to be shared with others by putting the experience in narrative form. Narrating emotions helps us to express, understand, and share them: the way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves. Habermas introduces the forms of oral narratives of personal experiences, and highlights a narrative's capacity to integrate various personal and temporal perspectives. Via theoretical proposals richly illustrated with oral narratives from clinical and non-clinical samples, he demonstrates how the form and variety of perspectives represented in stories strongly, yet unnoticeably, influence the emotional reactions of listeners. For instance, narrators defend themselves against negativity and undesired views of themselves by excluding perspectives from narratives. Habermas shows how parents can help children, and psychotherapists can assist patients, to enrich their narratives with additional perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Storytelling.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Emotions.
Autobiography.
Storytelling -- Psychological aspects
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects
Autobiographies as Topic
autobiography (genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Autobiography
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Emotions
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects
Storytelling
Storytelling -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108650984
1108650988
9781139424615
1139424610