A new method for narrative psychological content analysis: The LAS Verticum

The paper presents three levels of narrative psychological content analysis, which are focused on narrative construction of reality, narrative organization of representations, and psychological content of narratives. Developed for the purpose of narrative psychological content analysis, a new tool system, named 'LAS Verticum' is described. The new system can be used both for diagnostic tasks and hypothesis testing. It arranges content analysis into a single vertical system from the preparation of the test text for analysis to the statistical processing.