The paper presents a developmental psychological approach to life narratives, which is based on the assumption that narratives of significant life episodes show characteristic patterns of self-representation. It reviews contemporary theories on how early mother-child interactions build up the self and traces the way how early experiences become transformed into narrative self. It also presents evidences from neuro-cognitive research that underpin the narrative approach to self-development.
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