Narrative and Mental Health

Jarmila Mildorf is Associate Professor for English Literary and Cultural Studies at Paderborn University, Germany. She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, the European Narratology Network, the International Network for Address Research, and the German Network for Narrative Medicine, on the advisory board of the research center Narrare, and co-editor of the book series Narratives and Mental Health (Brill) and the Romanian journal Eon.Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, and Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University. Her research includes critical perspectives on diagnostic systems and established treatment methods and the prerequisites for providing client-centered care.Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, and Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University. Her research includes critical perspectives on diagnostic systems and established treatment methods and the prerequisites for providing client-centered care.

• Narratives and Mental Health: An IntroductionJarmila Mildorf, Elisabeth Punzi & Christoph Singer Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Researching Narratives and Mental HealthChapter 1: Imagining an Alternate PsychologyBrian Schiff Chapter 2: I Have Many Sick Hearts: Stories about Illness and LifeJens Brockmeier & Maria I. Medved Chapter 3: Narrative Practices in Mental Health: Narrative Therapy and the Fictive StanceDaniel D. Hutto Part II: Current Narrative Practices in Psychology and Psychotherapy Chapter 4: The Art of Teaching the Art of Listening: An Interview Study with University Teachers in Clinical Psychology and Social WorkElisabeth Punzi & Malgorzata Erikson Chapter 5: The Aftermath of Silencing the Trauma - A Narrative Case StudySoly Erlandsson & Nicolas Dauman Chapter 6: Writing as Narrative Resource in Therapeutic Settings: Diaries, Sketches, NotesJarmila Mildorf & Daniel Ketteler Chapter 7: What Constitutes Mad Behavior? Changes in the Grand Narrative of Disorder Delineated in Psychiatric Diagnoses between 1832 and 1980Malin Hildebrand Karlén Part III: Narratives of Aging, Dementia and Depression Chapter 8: How to Narrate a Healthy Life: Life-Stories and Mental Health in Interviews with the Elderly Aged 90+ Mari Hatavara Chapter 9: Narrative Ethics and Dementia: Critical Comments and ModificationsDaniela Ringkamp Chapter 10: Narrative Experiments with Medical Categorisation and Normalisation in B. S. Johnson's House Mother NormalSara Strauss Chapter 11: Mental Illness Representations in the German Mass Media: The Case of DepressionMarina Iakushevich Part IV: Mental Health, Life Storying, Trauma and Artistic Expression Chapter 12: Narrating Shame in Contemporary Mental Distress Memoirs by British WomenKatrin Röder Chapter 13: Psychic Relief and Non-Narrative Configurations in Graphic Memoirs about Mental HealthLasse R. Gammelgaard Chapter 14: Memory is a Strange Thing: Science Fiction, Trauma and Time in ArrivalChristoph Singer Index