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" Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present. "
When Faster Harder Smarter Is Not Enough - Page 12
by Kathryn D. Cramer - 2002 - 258 pages
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You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting With Your Family

Monica McGoldrick - 1997 - 334 pages
...time, it's a little uncomfortable. Let's bear the discomfort. It's worth it. — Paul Robeson, Jr. Composing a life involves a continual reimagining...reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present. . . . Storytelling is fundamental to the human search for meaning. . . . Each [of us] is involved in...
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Revising Herself : Women's Identity from College to Midlife: Women's ...

Ruthellen Josselson Professor of Psychology Towson State University - 1996 - 318 pages
...Composing a Life (1989), says that "composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and a reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present, remembering best those events that prefigued what followed, forgetting those that proved to have no meaning within the narrative" (p....
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Arms on the Market: Reducing the Risk of Proliferation in the Former Soviet ...

Gary K. Bertsch, Suzette Grillot - 1998 - 496 pages
...respective cultural/national group vulnerahilities and dilemmas. Mary Catherine Bateson (1987, p. 29) says, "Composing a life involves a continual reimagining...reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present." I must admit that I have always found safety and solace in my professional life. When I began this...
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Composing a Life

Mary Catherine Bateson - 2001 - 264 pages
...goal, for there is no way to know which fragments of the past will prove to be relevant in the future. Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation of tl ° past to give meaning to the present, remembering best those events that prefigured what followed,...
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The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-witness in Early Christian ...

Holly E. Hearon - 2004 - 252 pages
...Church are not static. To the contrary, the Church in every age is engaged in a process that requires "continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation...remembering best those events that prefigured what followed. . . ." w This study is dedicated to the task of demonstrating how the Magdalene stories represent some...
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Counselling and the Life Course

Léonie Sugarman - 2004 - 148 pages
...it can be seen that a narrative fulfils each of the key criteria. Taking a life course perspective 'Composing a life involves a continual reimagining...reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present'. (Mary Catherine Bateson, 1990) To take a life course perspective involves implicitly or explicitly...
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Everyone Is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity

Jamie L. Mullaney - 2006 - 248 pages
...management (Goffman 1959), as well as a picking and choosing from an array of events. As Bateson suggests, "composing a life involves a continual reimagining...that proved to have no meaning within the narrative" (1989, 29-30). Despite this retrospective bias, the narrative event carries the advantage of allowing...
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