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Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations

Bernini, M.

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B. Alderson-Day
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A. Woods
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C. Fernyhough
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Abstract

Within the psychological and social sciences, phenomenological reports are mostly either analysed to identify patterns that could fit a model or coded for quantitative or qualitative analysis, rather than treated as (more or less narrative) texts to be read. Drawing narrative theory into conversation with scientific understandings of hallucinatory experiences, this chapter considers instead a set of problems in the readerly dimension of phenomenological interviews. What kind of interpretive dispositions do we, as readers, bring to these qualitative reports? How can narrative theory help illuminate our relationship to forms of storytelling which often seem to surface out of confused or inconsistent pre-verbal and pre-narrative experiences? What kind of active, yet tensive, relation exists between the background world of readers and the reported world of the voice-hearer? Adapting key concepts from classic and post-classic narrative theory, this chapter sets out a novel interdisciplinary approach to phenomenological interviews on hallucinations.

Citation

Bernini, M. (2022). Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations. In B. Alderson-Day, A. Woods, & C. Fernyhough (Eds.), Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (108-116). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898388.003.0013

Acceptance Date Apr 23, 2019
Online Publication Date Sep 8, 2022
Publication Date 2022-09
Deposit Date Nov 10, 2019
Publicly Available Date Sep 9, 2024
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 108-116
Book Title Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN 9780192898388
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898388.003.0013

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