Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, je profesorkou klinické psychologie na Fielding Graduate University. Její práce se zaměřuje na hluboké zkoumání lidské identity a mezilidských vztahů, zejména v kontextu životních příběhů a kvalitativního výzkumu. Prostřednictvím dlouhodobého sledování a rozhovorů se věnuje analýze vývoje ženské identity a dynamiky přátelství a intimních vztahů. Její přístup zdůrazňuje důležitost narativních metod pro pochopení komplexnosti lidské zkušenosti.
Narrative and Cultural Humility examines the collision of cultures as Josselson taught group therapy to Chinese therapists over the course of 10 years. Her time in China led to lessons on the need for cultural humility in trying to narrate both her own experience and the experiences of her students.
The book explores the development of Irvin Yalom's influential ideas in psychiatry, highlighting key concepts from his writings. It offers insights into his thought process and the evolution of his theories, showcasing his impact on contemporary mental health practices.
Over the past several years psychology has begun to revise its vision of the self-contained individual, while devoting more attention to relational, ecological models of self. Evolving alongside this broader conceptualization of the self have been qualitative methods of studying the self-in-relationship. Building on their previous volumes in the Narrative Study of Lives series, editors Josselson, Lieblich, and McAdams illustrate the potential for narrative analysis to present new insights on human relationships. Here they present creative exemplars of studies on how relationships with parents, friends, peers, therapists, and even members of Internet communities affect such challenging human processes as acculturation, racial identity development, secure attachment, career choice, care giving, and grief. This volume will be of interest to those who seek a more complex understanding of the experience of relationship in human development. Therapists, researchers and students of developmental, personality and clinical psychology will find much in this book that will conceptually illuminate human relationship in context and in its many narratively-structured possibilities for meaning.