ABSTRACT
Composite narratives are a relatively new method for representing research findings, with an emerging history and theoretical background. Foundations for composite narratives can be found in philosophy of descriptive phenomenology, particularly from the work of Gendlin (Gendlin, 1997, 2004; Gendlin, 2017) and Todres (2007). Researchers using composite narratives have built on descriptive phenomenology to imagine a way of communicating that transmits lived experiences through language. Researchers in diverse fields including psychology, medicine, political science, and education have continued to contribute to the development of composite narrative methods in recent times.
