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Part III. Digital Media and Storytelling in Research ] 89 borderline patients. The submodules of larger modules can be linked together to form so-called hypermodules, which can act as relational cues to modify the psychothematic modules. The relational modules include denial, peer references and thematic roles (Ehmann, Csertö, Ferenczhalmy, Fülöp, Hargitai, Kövägö, Pölya Tibor, Szalai, Vincze & Läszlö, 2014). Content analysis of autobiographical narratives from psychological and linguistic points of view was used to determine therapeutic progression in the 1990s for the first time. The aim of the study was to explore how language usage predicts the recovery of addicts (n = 16). Through a mathematicalstatistical analysis of the narrative categories and evaluative codes of the autobiographical texts, it was possible to identify common traits in the texts of those who successfully overcame their addictions. These individuals used linguistic elements in their texts to express the importance of their individual development in either a positive interpretive or negative reactive style. It was also typical that they were less critical of themselves over time or, if they were critical of themselves, they expressed positive thoughts about the treatment program which they were undergoing (Stephenson, Laszlo. Enmann, Lefever & Lefever, 1997). Narrative psychology examines subjective experiences in narratives. Events, circumstances, and characters in narratives are always presented from some point of view. One component of analysis in narrative psychology is the psychological perspective, which gives insight into the emotional world, behavior, and thoughts of the characters in the story. The other component is the spatio-temporal perspective, which examines the spatial and temporal relationships between the narrator and the narrative. At the same time, the narratives also include the narrator’s evaluation, which is influenced by his or her own goals, emotions and opinions (Tibor Pólya, 2008). The narrator's spatio-temporal perspective — the meta-reflexivity to ones own narrative - can be measured through the verb tenses which are used. In identity stories, the degree of success in terms of coping with stigmatizing situations as well as the narrator's identity status can also be measured through tense usage. Tibor Pólya (2007) identified the narrator’s male and female identity states from the life stories of 20 homosexual men and 20 women who had undergone artificial insemination. The men told their coming out stories, while the women narrated the process of insemination, both representing situations that conflict with social and individual constructions of gender identity. Through narrative psychological content analysis, the researcher is able to gain insight into the different psychological states of the narrator by analyzing linguistic forms and text structures. In this sense, psychopathological phenomena and psychological disorders can also be captured in autobiographic narratives (Poharnok, 2008). Typical examples are reflections from psychotherapy or texts from targeted interviews. For measuring the impact of therapy sessions for mothers raising their children in prison, texts were
