Phenomenological-narrative contributions to understand the narrative strategies that shape the autobiographical account throughout different moments of the therapeutic process

DUERO DANTE GABRIEL; OSORIO VILLEGAS FRANCISCO JAVIER

Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome

Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR - Italia)

Lugar: ROMA; Año: 2018 vol. 21 p. 98 - 98

2239-8031

ifferent studies suggest that the strategies and narrative styles that people use to construct their autobiographical accounts have repercussionson their self-organization, as well as on their identity experience and their conception of the world. Empirical evidence supports changesin different aspects related to process, structure, and content in thenarrative of clients during the course of the therapeutic process;these, in turn, seem to condition the course and the results of theprocess. In this paper we will seek to show, based on a case studyand through the application of a method of phenomenological-narrativeanalysis, what are the predominant narrative strategies that aclient uses in order to shape her autobiographical narrative in theinitial and final moments of her psychotherapeutic process. Ourdata suggest that the narrative strategies at the beginning and endof the therapy are qualitatively differentiable. Changes are observedin the plot of the respective accounts, as well as