Not per se, but here are some sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_therapy and another http://poetryforpersonalpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/health-benefits-of-forming-a-story.pdf and another http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=S71a05U_ooQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&dq=clinical+narrative+psychology&ots=9CaKdm48f6&sig=DUBDDlhZc4g_MOK0pgChGAWq08c#v=onepage&q=clinical%20narrative%20psychology&f=false

Here is one more: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1029/2225

Thank you very much. I find the last as the most interesting for me (I am familiar with the former links). But I am still looking for "clinical narrative psychology" per se.

Are you familiar with the literature on Therapeutic Assessment? In particular, check out the research by Deborah Tharinger. She uses fables in a clinical context to provide children with developmentally appropriate narratives by which to understand the results of psychological testing.

Emilia,

You can view one of Dr. Tharinger's articles here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232594913_Providing_psychological_assessment_feedback_to_children_through_individualized_fables?ev=prf_pub

Article Providing Psychological Assessment Feedback to Children Thro...

The following papers might be of some help:

# Benish-Weisman M, Wu LM, Weinberger-Litman SL, Redd WH, Duhamel KN, Rini C. Healing stories: Narrative characteristics in cancer survivorship narratives and

psychological health among hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors. Palliat

Support Care. 2013 Aug 14:1-7. [Epub ahead of print]

# Hirsh JB, Mar RA, Peterson JB. Personal narratives as the highest level of

cognitive integration. Behav Brain Sci. 2013 Jun;36(3):216-7. doi:

10.1017/S0140525X12002269. Epub 2013 May 10.

# Edwards S, Gabbay M. Living and working with sickness: a qualitative study.

Chronic Illn. 2007 Jun;3(2):155-66.

# Avdi E, Georgaca E. Narrative research in psychotherapy: a critical review.

Psychol Psychother. 2007 Sep;80(Pt 3):407-19. Review.

# Ryan K, Bissell P, Morecroft C. Narratives about illness and medication: a

neglected theme/new methodology within pharmacy practice research. Part II:

medication narratives in practice. Pharm World Sci. 2007 Aug;29(4):353-60. Epub

2007 Apr 27.

# Kugelmann R. Introducing narrative psychology: self, trauma and the

construction of meaning. J Health Psychol. 2001 Sep;6(5):604-6. doi:

10.1177/135910530100600511.

7: Murray M. A narrative approach to health psychology: background and potential.

J Health Psychol. 1997 Jan;2(1):9-20. doi: 10.1177/135910539700200102.

Thank you. I have read several papers mentioned above and your recommendation confirms my way of thinking.

Richard and Michael provided good ideas and resources. One might want to add the work on expressive writing as a brief intervention for stress-related problems. People simply write about their stressful experience for an hour and show marked improvements in health that persist for up to a year. Presumably the process of turning the event into a controlled narrative is the healing mechanism. James Pennebaker is the major researcher in this line.

I think that historically there was something of a divide between two narrative traditions. The more widely known one arose out of early work with the TAT at Henry Murray's lab. Although these folks had clinical training, their interest was more in studying people and identifying the patterns that define our personalities, less in therapeutic change. I'm thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Dan McAdams, Arnold Bruhn, Jefferson Singer, and so on. And then there was a movement in the psychoanalytic community away from the old fretful worries over how "true" patient's memories were, toward the idea that simply crafting a coherent narrative of one's life would be healing. The later work of Roy Schafer was probably seminal here. It also is associated with work by Michael White and David Epston, who come from a more "constructivist" perspective. I am not sure whether, or to what extent, cross-pollination has taken place between these two rich traditions.

I work with symbolic convergence theory developed by U of Minnesota's Ernest Bormann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bormann). I have used it with those who need therapeutic support and also in organizational settings, and I've done research on physicians and their patients, etc. It's a system of analysis of narratives using qualitative methods. You may want to check my article "The rhetoric of la familia among Mexican-Americans" (1992, 2000, 2003-2012). Our voices: Essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication. An intercultural anthology. A. Gonzalez, M. Houston, & V. Chen (Eds.). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing. Oxford University Press. 2012.