self-story

plural self-stories · alternative self story

1. A story or account specific to oneself.

   This process facilitates the construction of a more comprehensive and coherent account of the client's self-story.

   2004, Hubert J.M. Hermans, Giancarlo Dimaggio, The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy, page 79

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   Therapeutically, the goal of ACT is not so much to alter a person's self-story but to weaken their attachment to it.

   2014, John Marzillier, The Trauma Therapies

   Further, is there a difference between the individual who is writing the self-story and the self whose story is being written?

   2018, Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Self-Concept Clarity