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• Textual engagement – a text is not an isolated unit of meaning but interpreted by the
texts that surround it;
• Narrative motif – an examination of the text to identify the presence of constituent
themes that unite to form, add or illuminate an overall motif;
• Kerygmatic intention – reflection on what is being told or communicated in the text
for the benefit of others and how intentional the author of the text is;
• Diachronic harmonization – clarifying how this fits with other authors/perspectives
in other texts (Ricoeur 1995).
Thematic narrative analysis is therefore a qualitative research method that extracts themes
from a personal-relational encounter (interviewer/interviewee - researcher/researched)
recorded in spoken words, written text, author/researcher memory and intersubjective
unconscious processes – some of which can be captured using another research
methodology - autobiographical reflexive narrative offering intersubjective evocation of
meaning that acknowledges the presence of the unconscious (Eigen 1992).
Group Intersubjective Analysis
A qualitative research day brought together twelve participants from multidisciplinary
backgrounds including: a professor of theology (PhD supervisor); a social scientist; an
academic researcher from the research department of the British Association of Counselling
and Psychotherapy; three professional therapists (all completing PhDs, two integrative, one
psychodynamic); a hospital chaplain and psychodynamic therapist; an Anglican priest,
performance coach and integrative therapist; a counselling psychologist and qualitative
researcher; a youth worker and doctoral student; an integrative therapist and supervisor,
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