Storying later life issues, investigations, and interventions in narrative gerontology (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Issues -- - Narrative foreclosure in later life: possibilities and limits - Mark Freeman -- - Memory, metaphor, and meaning: reading for wisdom in the stories of our lives - William L. Randall -- - Narrative events and biographical construction in old age - Jaber F. Gubrium -- - Inventing yourself: how older adults deal with the pressure of late-modern identity construction - Frits de Lange -- - In waves of time, space, and self: the dwelling-place of age in Virginia Woolf's The waves - Rishi Goyal and Rita Charon -- - The narrative frame in discourse on aging: understanding facts and values behind public policy - Phillip G. Clark -- - Investigations -- - The power of stories left untold: narratives of Nazi followers - Stephen Marks -- - Young bodies, old bodies, and stories of the athletic self - Cassandra Phoenix -- - The raging grannies: narrative construction of gender and aging - Linda Caissie --
- Narrative and gender differences: how men and women interpret their lives - Patricia O-Neill, James E. Birren and Cheryl Svensson -- Telling stories: how do expressions of self differ in a writing group versus a reminiscence group? - Kate de Medeiros -- - Mnëemë and anamnësis: the contribution of involuntary reminiscences to the construction of a narrative self in older age - Phileppe Cappeliez and Jeffrey Dean Webster -- - Achieving narrative coherence following traumatic war experience: the role of social support - Karen Burnell, Peter Coleman, and Nigel Hunt -- - Using self-defining memories in couples therapy with older adults - Jefferson A. Singer and Beata Labunko Messier -- - Interventions -- - On suffering, loss and the journey to life: Tai Chi as narrative chare - Gary Kenyon -- - Older adults in search of new stories: measuring the effects of life review on coherence and integration in autobiographical narratives - Thijs Tromp --
- Reminiscence interventions: bringing narrative gerontology into practice - Ernst Bohlmeijer and Gerben Westerhof -- - Life review using autobiographical retrieval: a protocol for training depressed residential home inhabitants in recalling specific personal memories - Bas Steunenberg and Ernst Bohlmeijer -- - "Green and gray": an educational program to enhance contact between younger and older adults by means of lifestories - Gerben M. Ubels -- - Implementation of narrative care in The Netherlands; coordinating mangement, institutional, and personal narratives - Gerdienke M. Ubels -- - Asking the right questions: enabling persons with dementia to speak for themselves - Marie-Elise van den Brand-van Heek -- - The ripple effect: a story of the transformational nature of narrative care / Daphne Noonan -- - Afterword -- - Toward a narrative turn in health care - Ernst Bohlmeijer, Gary Kenyon, and William L. Randall