It also possesses great theoretical significance” (pp.16). adolescence and emerging adulthood).ĭating back to the earliest days of psychology, Freud (1905 1953) famously noted in his case study of Dora: “ the patient’s inability to give an ordered history of their lives … is not merely characteristic of the neurosis. It is a longstanding hypothesis that the coherence of our accounts of personally significant events is a critical feature of psychological health, especially when identity construction is a salient developmental task (i.e. Prevailing integrative approaches to narrative coherence define it as telling a narrative that incorporates time and place information, presents events in an orderly fashion, provides a resolution, and incorporates subjective perspective (e.g. There is an assumed benefit to talking about our past in a coherent way. Pennebaker & Chung, 2011 McLeod, 1997 White & Epston, 1990).Ĭutting across these domains of scientific inquiry is the fundamental assumption that how we talk about the significant events of our lives is reflective, or predictive, of our psychological adjustment.
Oppenheim, Nir, Warren, & Emde, 1997), and clinical and intervention research (e.g. Brockmeier & Carbaugh, 2001 Gazzaniga 1998), emotion regulation (e.g. McAdams, 1995 1996), consciousness (e.g Damasio, 1999), self and identity (e.g. Main, Kaplan, & Cassidy, 1985), personality (e.g. Fivush & Nelson, 2006), social development (e.g. Bruner, 1986 1990), cognitive development (e.g. Narrative features prominently in theories of cognition (e.g. In recent decades psychology has seen the substantial growth of a narrative based perspective in the development of theory and methodological tools.
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