Abstract
This article examines the conflict that ensues over the meaning of `truth' in a treatment program for imprisoned sexual offenders. Based on ethnographic research in a prison hospital, extensive interview and observational data are employed to demonstrate the pervasiveness of truth discourse in both treatment and everyday living on the unit. Through the application of a narrative analytic framework, it is argued that the inherent incompatibility between autobiography and disclosure — or narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought, to use Bruner's (1986, 1991) terms — explains how and why inmates struggle to accept the re-emplotment of their life stories demanded by treatment staff.
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