A Narrative Study of the Lives of Women Who Experience Anorexia Nervosa

Listening in the dark: why we need stories of people living with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa

“…Individuals moving through anorexia and into recovery emphasize the processes of reconnecting, discovering or rebuilding a previously neglected or lost part of the self [12, 15, 16]. Given the embedded nature of all experiences, it is not surprising that these changes in self are often accompanied by (re)connecting with others, one’s past, the environment and spirituality, often through re-engaging in meaningful activities [14, 16, 17]. These themes have been drawn from research methods aligned with narrative inquiry [18], whereby the experiencing person makes sense of their life events through use of narrative devices, including metaphor.…”

Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Rights Violations: Historically Situating the Psychosocial Effects of Migration

“…Interviews were conducted in Spanish and transcribed in Spanish by a native Spanish speaker. Before beginning a thematic narrative analysis of the interviews (Riessman, ), we read each one separately, creating summaries in English that included the interviewees’ narratives of multiple actions and events, in chronological order (O'Shaugnnessy et al., ) . We separately reviewed each summary and began constructing narrative themes for each participant, within and across participants’ narratives, that is, topics around which participants had organized their narratives.…”

“…We separately reviewed each summary and began constructing narrative themes for each participant, within and across participants’ narratives, that is, topics around which participants had organized their narratives. As we developed themes, we individually wrote up memos about our ideas regarding how each theme was appearing in each narrative and across narratives, and how the themes we were identifying contributed to understanding the particularities of the Maya K'iche' migration experiences (Bowen, ; O'Shaugnnessy et al., ).…”

“…The four Maya K'iche' whose lives are narrated in this article are similar in terms of cultural traditions, histories, and familial experiences. Each participant also narrates details of key events and actions that many of the over 120 MHRP participants experienced (O'Shaughnessy, Dallos, & Gough, ). Before selecting them, we reviewed interviews from a subsample of participants in the larger MHRP.…”

“…At least one of the coauthors was present during each interview, providing additional insight about the content and context of the interview, and ensuring consistency in follow‐up questions. Finally, these four participants were selected for the current analysis because they represented much of the variation in the larger MHRP sample in terms of age or generation, gender, and current location of multiple family members (see O'Shaugnessy et al., ), while narrating stories with sufficient detail to illustrate the dialectic between the material forces that constrained their lives—including armed conflict, forced migration, and detention and deportation—and their performances of protagonism and resistance.…”