Meaning in Action

Chapter 1 The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action

Chapter 2 Reflections on the Diversity of Knowledge: Power and Dialogue in Representational Fields

Chapter 3 Discourse and Representation in the Construction of Witchcraft

Chapter 4 Culture, Psychotherapy, and the Diasporic Self as Transitoric Identity: A Reply to Social Constructionist and Postmodern Concepts of Narrative Psychotherapy

Chapter 5 Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity

Chapter 6 Constructing Trauma and Its Treatment: Knowledge, Power and Resistance

Chapter 7 Moralities We Live by: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change

Chapter 8 A Theory of Construction of Norm and Meaning: Osawa’s Theory of Body

Chapter 9 The Transcendental Nature of Norms: Infants in Residential Nurseries and Child Adoption

Chapter 10 Using Social Knowledge: A Case Study of a Diarist’s Meaning Making During World War II

Chapter 11 Twice-Told-Tales: Small Story Analysis and the Process of Identity Formation

Chapter 12 Human/Nature Narratives and Popular Films: Big, Bad, Bold, Beneficent, Bountiful, Beautiful and Bereft

Chapter 13 Opposite and Coexistent Dialogues: Repeated Voices and the Side-by-Side Position of Self and Other

Chapter 14 Narrative Mode of Thought in Disaster Damage Reduction: A Crossroad for Narrative and Gaming Approaches

Chapter 15 A Dialogical Perspective of Social Representations of Responsibility

Chapter 16 The Social and the Cultural: Where do They Meet?

Chapter 17 Moral Responsibility and Social Fiction

Chapter 18 Social Psychology and Literature: Toward Possible Correspondence

Chapter 19 Meaning in Action