Narrative leadership: using the power of stories David Fleming

Becoming a mother changes lives in many ways and this original and accessible book explores how women try to make sense of and narrate their experiences of first-time motherhood in the Western world. Tina Miller pays close attention to women’s own accounts, over time, of their experiences of transition to motherhood and shows how myths

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The author argues that contemporary social theories cannot simultaneously accommodate the diachronic and synchronic dimensions of time within their frameworks, because they reduce the complexities of social life in order to cope with them. Jacques Derrida’s and Walter Benjamin’s writings on memory open up the possibility of thinking about the relation between memory and narrative

Morwaread M. Farbood A.B. Music Harvard College (1997) M.S. Media Arts and Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001) Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY February, 2006

At least since the days of Locke it had been assumed that mental life went from the simple to the complex, and that complex operations were painstakingly constructed out of elementaristic components. As we saw earlier, Hartley made quite explicit the notion that complexity=summation. This seemed such an obvious formulation that it was difficult to

In the last chapter we saw how. the new tradition attacked one of the stumbling blocks of the British associationists-the problem of elements, the atomistic conception of complex thinking being made up of simple ideas, and the dependence on the Aristotelian dogma of “no image-no thought.” In modern terms the resolution might have been to

Although the birthdate of an experimental psychology can be argued, Wilhelm Wundts assumption of paternity cannot. It was Wundt in 1874 who marked out the “new domain of science” and who made the break with -self-observation by insisting that “all accurate observation implies . . . that the observed object is independent of the observer.”

Lopez 1987 Differences Do Make a Difference – comparison with Milton Erickson

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In this chapter I discuss Charles Taylor’s and Paul Ricoeur’s theories of narrative identity and narratives as a central form of self-interpretation.1 Both Taylor and Ricoeur think that self-identity is a matter of culturally and socially mediated self-definitions, which are practically relevant for one’s orientation in life.2 First, I will go through various characterisations that

There is a name which stands out in contrast to all that is secret, suspect, confusing, bookish and enslaving: Krishnamurti. Here is one man of our time who may be said to be a master of reality. He stands alone.