Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology: A Guide to Practice

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different "levels". These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as "sexually abusive", analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.

Peter Emerson is Senior Practitioner (Family Therapy) at the Unthank Family Centre, Norwich, UK.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. His most recent books include After Words and Young Masculinities, both published by Palgrave Macmillan.