Brian Schiff
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brian Schiff is involved.
2023 Memory is an interpretive action Memory and Narrative, Jeftic, Alma, Thomas Van de Putte and Johana Wyss (eds.), pp. 269–287 | Article
In this essay, I aim to shore up the epistemological foundations of memory studies so that it can more productively fulfill its promise to understand the dynamics of shared meaning-making. I argue for theoretical and, hence, methodological, advancement toward a more precise vocabulary for… read more
2013 Fractured narratives: Psychology’s fragmented narrative psychology The Travelling Concepts of Narrative, Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen (eds.), pp. 245–264 | Article
Some psychologists have always studied what persons say about their lives, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s psychologists began to employ the concept of narrative in a self conscious manner. Over the past two decades, the amount of psychological research calling itself narrative has blossomed.… read more
2007 The promise (and challenge) of an innovative narrative psychology Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 27–36 | Article
In this article, I outline what are, in my view, the major conceptual and institutional weaknesses of narrative psychology. However, because my objective is to legitimatize narrative as an alternative vision of psychology, I frame these criticisms as challenges for narrative psychologists to… read more
2006 The promise (and challenge) of an innovative narrative psychology Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 19–27 | Article
In this article, I outline what are, in my view, the major conceptual and institutional weaknesses of narrative psychology. However, because my objective is to legitimatize narrative as an alternative vision of psychology, I frame these criticisms as challenges for narrative psychologists to… read more
2006 Consistency and change in the repeated narratives of Holocaust survivors Narrative Inquiry 16:2, pp. 349–377 | Article
In this article, we study the oral history interviews of eight survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We give a detailed analysis of a central narrative in their life story, the “selection narrative,” the experience of being forcibly separated from family into groups for labor or death, as it is told in… read more
2001 Collected Stories in the Life Narratives of Holocaust Survivors Narrative Inquiry 11:1, pp. 159–193 | Article