Narrative Beyond Prison Gates

@article{Yardley2015NarrativeBP,
  title={Narrative Beyond Prison Gates},
  author={Elizabeth Yardley and David B. Wilson and Diane Kemp and Michael Brookes},
  journal={International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology},
  year={2015},
  volume={59},
  pages={159 - 179}
}
This article reports on qualitative research with Alan, a former resident of the therapeutic communities at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Grendon, England, exploring narrative identity beyond therapy. The study emphasises the complexity inherent in the five identities on which Alan draws—the Achiever, the Liminal Man, the Lucky Man, the Puppet, and the Wise Man. We suggest that narrative identities are adapted and reconstructed as they are taken outside of the therapeutic community into a less… 
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