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R Josselson

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PubMed2000

Stability and change in early memories over 22 years: themes, variations, and cadenzas.

Earliest and second-earliest memories were collected from 24 participants at three time points (ages 21, 33, and 43) over 22 years, and were examined for stability and change in thematic material. Results indicate that early memories are largely stable, but the nuances of the thematic portrayals reflect personality change as well. Participants' biographical data are used to demonstrate the ways in which themes apparent in early memories are expressed in the participants' lives.

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PubMed1995

Narrative and psychological understanding.

NARRATIVE understanding is based in philosophical hermeneutics, a tradition regnant in Europe but only recently penetrating the American intellectual consciousness. Within this epistemology, there is only the text (communicated in language), which is itself about a text, and dialogue within and among these texts. There is no priori place to stand to make truth claims: there are only interpretations made from a particular historical and value-implicated stance. The "hermeneutic circle" describes a process in which understanding requires reference to a priori understandings such that knowledge accrues in a circular, dialectic fashion. No knowledge can be independent of context or interpreter. The enterprise of science then becomes conversation from which emerge consensual ideas that constitute ways of perceiving and interpreting future texts.

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