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"This is a book for the future, your future. As we approach the beginning of a new century and a new millennium we look for change. We expect the outside world to change but what about change in the world inside of us. Only we can change the way we look at ourselves and how we tell ourselves and others the story of our lives. Take time to tell and restory your life. Gary Kenyon and William Randall have given us a pathway to 'Restorying Our Lives.' Walk that pathway into your future." - James E. Birren, Ph.D. Associate Director UCLA Center on Aging
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This book is a refreshingly readable blend of practical insight and academic analysis concerning the familiar, but fascinating metaphor: "the story of my life." It offers an engaging perspective on the aesthetic dimensions of composing (or "storying") our lives. Woven around numerous entailments of the life-as-story metaphor, like plot, character, theme, point of view, and setting, it introduces a variety of novel concepts, such as coauthoring, biographical coaching, biographical aging, narrative environment, larger stories, radical restorying, and storying style in order to probe the complex hermeneutical and ethical issues surrounding the storytelling/storylistening exchange that is integral to therapeutic care, qualitative research, and, indeed, everyday life. With a comprehensive bibliography on the narrative approach in the human sciences, plus numerous examples that illustrate the enticing theoretical perspective at the book's core, this work constitutes a valuable resource for anyone curious about the dynamics of continuity and change--or "restorying"--in both their own and other's lives. It appeals to a broad range of readers from social workers to gerontologists, from psychotherapists to memory theorists, from spiritual directors to health care providers, and from professional philosophers to individuals involved in self-exploration.
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"This is a book for the future, your future. As we approach the beginning of a new century and a new millennium we look for change. We expect the outside world to change but what about change in the world inside of us. Only we can change the way we look at ourselves and how we tell ourselves and others the story of our lives. Take time to tell and restory your life. Gary Kenyon and William Randall have given us a pathway to 'Restorying Our Lives.' Walk that pathway into your future." - James E. Birren, Ph.D. Associate Director UCLA Center on Aging
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This book is a refreshingly readable blend of practical insight and academic analysis concerning the familiar, but fascinating metaphor: "the story of my life." It offers an engaging perspective on the aesthetic dimensions of composing (or "storying") our lives. Woven around numerous entailments of the life-as-story metaphor, like plot, character, theme, point of view, and setting, it introduces a variety of novel concepts, such as coauthoring, biographical coaching, biographical aging, narrative environment, larger stories, radical restorying, and storying style in order to probe the complex hermeneutical and ethical issues surrounding the storytelling/storylistening exchange that is integral to therapeutic care, qualitative research, and, indeed, everyday life. With a comprehensive bibliography on the narrative approach in the human sciences, plus numerous examples that illustrate the enticing theoretical perspective at the book's core, this work constitutes a valuable resource for anyone curious about the dynamics of continuity and change--or "restorying"--in both their own and other's lives. It appeals to a broad range of readers from social workers to gerontologists, from psychotherapists to memory theorists, from spiritual directors to health care providers, and from professional philosophers to individuals involved in self-exploration.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 100 books | 9 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: lifestory material, storying style, own lifestory, biographical aging, storied perspective (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Gabriel Marcel, James Birren, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roger Schank, Wilhelm Mader Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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In this book, we present a fresh way of understanding what it means to be a person. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lifestory material, storying style, own lifestory, biographical aging, storied perspective, biographical encounter, composing our lives, restorying process, guided autobiography, autobiographical imperative, dementing persons, narrative environment, signature stories, narrative intelligence, personal storytelling, storied nature, social story, story metaphor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In this book, we present a fresh way of understanding what it means to be a person. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lifestory material, storying style, own lifestory, biographical aging, storied perspective, biographical encounter, composing our lives, restorying process, guided autobiography, autobiographical imperative, dementing persons, narrative environment, signature stories, narrative intelligence, personal storytelling, storied nature, social story, story metaphor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gabriel Marcel, James Birren, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roger Schank, Wilhelm Mader New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Narrative Psychology: The Storied Nature of Human Conduct by Theodore R. Sarbin on 6 pages
- Metaphors of Aging in Science and the Humanities by Gary M. Kenyon on 4 pages
- Sacred Stories: A Celebration of the Power of Story to Transform and Heal by Charles Simpkinson on 4 pages
- On Narrative by W. J. T. Mitchell on 4 pages
- Qualitative Methods in Aging Research (SAGE Focus Editions) by Jaber F. Gubrium in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom by Jeffrey Berman on page 180, and Back Matter
- Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to A Critical Humanism by Ken Plummer on page 47, and Back Matter
- What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life by David, M.D. Kuhl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aged by Culture by Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Back Matter
- Aging and Everyday Life (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) by Jaber F. Gubrium on page 112
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