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77 DOI: Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: Vol. 2. Quantitative, Qualitative, Neuropsychological, and Biological, H. Cooper (Editor-in-Chief)Copyright 2012 by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 6 NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Michael Bamberg A number of different connotations are commonly connected to the use of the terms NARRATIVE research, NARRATIVE inquiry, and NARRATIVE ANALYSIS connotations that intersect and often contribute to the impression of NARRATIVE research as complex and multilayered, if not confusing. One of the most central ways this complexity plays out is in what can be taken as the most basic intersection, namely, that between research on narratives, in which narratives are the object of study, and research with narratives, in which narratives are the tools to explore something else typically aspects of human memory or experi-ence.

Narrative as method. Although the relationship between narrative and identity has been theorized by philosophers, historians, literary critics, and psychologists (among others), credit for moving the narrative mode of sense making into a special status belongs to Bruner ( 1986 , 1991 ) and Lyotard (1984) . narrative

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