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From this discovery she began to focus more on this population. She published several books on the topic: The Psychology of Subnormal Children (1920, Special Talents and Defects (1923) and The Psychology of the Adolescent (1928). [2] The last of these became a leading textbook for the following two decades, replacing one written by G. Stanley Hall.
Narrative psychology is not a single or well-defined theory. It refers to a range of approaches to stories in human life and thought. [3] In narrative psychology, a person's life story becomes a form of identity as how they choose to reflect on, integrate and tell the facts and events of their life not only reflects, but also shapes, who they ...
Freud wrote several important essays on literature, which he used to explore the psyche of authors and characters, to explain narrative mysteries, and to develop new concepts in psychoanalysis (for instance, Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva and his influential readings of the Oedipus myth and Shakespeare's Hamlet in The Interpretation of Dreams).
It's worth noting that while this theme of female silence is prevalent throughout the written fairy tales published in Germany and enduring in America today, this trend wasn't always the norm: Charles Perrault's French renditions of these stories place greater value on beautiful women who are also articulate.
In recent decades, a proliferation of psychological research on narrative identity has provided a strong empirical basis for the construct, cutting across the field, including personality psychology, [2] social psychology, [3] developmental and life-span psychology, [4] cognitive psychology, [5] cultural psychology, [6] and clinical and ...
In the 1980s, Pandora Press, responsible for publishing Spender's study, issued a companion line of 18th-century novels written by women. [2] More recently, Broadview Press continues to issue 18th- and 19th-century novels, many hitherto out of print, and the University of Kentucky has a series of republications of early women's novels.
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1881) Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland, Augusta Bender (1883) "Women As An Inventor", Matilda Joselyn Gage (May 1883) The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States, Isabella Beecher Hooker (1883) [107] The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner (1883) [108]
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