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As we learn more about narrative, some knowledge is found to have application in disciplines outside literature, sparking intersectional study and narrative-based approaches to non-litearry pracdtices.
The subject of intersectional study is not narrative, but what we know about narrative offers new insight into the subject of study or practice.
Narrative x Therapy
Narrative x Wellness
Large Language Model (LLM) outputs have prompted the question: Are stories generated by LLMs narrative?
Angus Fletcher argues Why Computer AI Will Never Do What We Imagine It Can
AI Stories is a research project studying how narrative shapes AI outputs.
Narrative Group at USC Institute for Creative Technologies is pursuing research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding.
Narrative x Medicine
Narrative x Social Change
Narrative x Care
Narrative x Communication
Narrative x Neuroscience
Narrative x Design
Narrative x AI
An approach to psychotherapy that centers personal stories.
Developed by Michael White and David Epston, authors of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends.
The Dulwich Center offers training and events.
The University of Melbourne offers a graduate degree in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
An approach to wellness that considers literature as a wellness practice.
Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher offers literature as a technology that can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui, while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change.
The Literary Reading and Mental Well-Being research coalition at International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL) studies effects of literature on wellbeing.
LIterature for Empowerment (LIFE) investigates whether reading fiction can foster a form of individual empowerment, or “eudaimonic empowerment”.
Narrative Medicine is an approach to medical practice that uses close reading of patient stories to improve medical outcomes.
Master and graduate degrees in narrative medicine are offered at Columbia University, University of Southern California and Harvard.
Narrative Change is a media strategy used by social change organizations to shift public opinion on a social issue.
An approach to care — in the social or health sectors — that centers patient stories.
Narrative Gerontology approaches aging from the fundamental principle that life is a story.
An approach to professional communications practice that focuses on storytelling.
Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind (2007) criticizes the use of narrative in professional communications.
Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom by Maria Mäkelä and Hanna Meretoja criticizes the use of storytelling by storytelling consultants.
Narrative Cognition is an approach to understanding the human mind by studying how narrative affects the way people perceive the world.
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher explains how and why our brains think in stories.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman’s podcast Inner Cosmos explores narrative’s effect on the brain in the episode Why do brains love stories?
Narrative Architecture considers space and structures as narrative texts.