Narrative and Foundational Assumptions
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This chapter describes a training program in China involving working intimately with Chinese therapists in quite revealing experiential groups over ten years. The author learned that whatever she could tell about her experiences would be infiltrated by her own Western culture. Her struggle was to bring her embeddedness in a Western perspective into narrative contact with an Eastern, quite different, set of foundational assumptions about life and human relationships. Narrative is always rooted in culture-bound worldviews but can also be a way of bridging them. Culture can only be told in storied form and involves the intersection of self and other. Cross-cultural knowing of the Other is a humbling experience.
1999 ◽
Vol 15
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pp. 196-205
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2012 ◽
Vol 5
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pp. 39-49
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2020 ◽
pp. 243-263
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2011 ◽
Vol 50
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pp. 178-200
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