Identity and story
Subtitle: creating self in narrative
By: Dan P. McAdams, Ruthellen Josselson, and Amia Lieblich, editors.
Contributors: McAdams, Dan P.; Josselson, Ruthellen.; Lieblich, Amia, 1939-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The narrative study of lives
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology); Narration (Rhetoric); Psychology -- Biographical methods.
Description: "An increasing number of psychologists argue that people give meaning to their lives by constructing and internalizing self-defining stories. The contributors to this volume explore how, beginning in adolescence and young adulthood, our narrative identities become the stories we live by. This volume addresses the most important and difficult issues in the study of narrative identity, including questions of unity and multiplicity in stories, the controversy over individual versus societal authorship of stories, and the extent to which stories typically show stability or growth in the narrator."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes indexes.