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This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be affected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying, or practicing in mental health professions will find a wealth of humanizing first-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will find a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving toward intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.

Glemmer du, så husker ... erindringsforsker Dorthe Berntsen ved Aarhus Universitet dig på, at erindring er menneskets x-faktor, den helt unikke evne, der gør os i stand til at knytte bånd, føle ansvar, frygt og taknemmelighed. Var det ikke for erindring, ville vores identitet blafre i vinden, ethvert samfund falde fra hinanden og vores familie og venner være reduceret til tilfældige fremmede. Uden erindring ville 11. september blot være en dag i kalenderen, og ingen ville gide at uploade et eneste foto på Facebook. Vi er vores erindring - husk det nu.

This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be affected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying, or practicing in mental health professions will find a wealth of humanizing first-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will find a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving toward intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.

Hvem var mennesket bag myten Mærsk McKinney Møller egentlig? Og hvordan blev Zlatan Ibrahimovic sådan en dygtig fodboldspiller? Vi sluger biografier råt og bruger de kendte menneskers historie til at spejle vores liv i. Men ikke kun de berømte har en historie at fortælle – vi har alle en livshistorie, og den er afgørende for vores identitet. Psykolog Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, lektor ved Aarhus Universitet, viser, at vi bruger livshistorien til at navigerer med, og at ikke alle historier er lige gode kompas, hvis du sigter efter et vellykket liv.