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In the context of Narrative Studies...

"Human experience is conceived as a process of constructing and reconstructing a life narrative: " 'Life' in this sense is the same kind of construction of the human imagination as a 'narrative' is." (...) If one accepts the premise that "a life is not 'how it was' but how it is interpreted and reinterpreted, told and retold" (...) then the ground rules for scholarly analysis are shifted. (...) "What is most intriguing about the self is that identity may be as determined by events we believe happened to us as ones that did." (...) The concern with the accuracy of memories, so prevalent in experimental cognitive psychology, gives way to an emphasis on the person's beliefs about what happened: psychic reality is as important as historical truth."

"(...) "The narrative movement also has strong adherents within the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic communities. (...) the patient's story is a construction in which the teller creates a coherent and convincing personal history (...) the patient's created narrative account is "truthful," but its truth value does not lie in its historical accuracy. (...) Narrative truth is defined as "the criterion we use to decide when a certain experience has been captured to our satisfaction; it depends on continuity and closure and the extent to which the fit of the pieces takes on an aesthetic finality." When we arrive at the historical truth, our description of a prior event is based on the "facts"; when we arrive at the narrative truth, our explanation carries "conviction.""

"In the psychotherapeutic milieu, creating narrative truth may be more important than establishing historical truth: "narrative truth has a special significance in its own right (...) making contact with the actual past may be of far less significance than creating a coherent and consistent account of a particular set of events." (...) If a life story can be truthful even if it does not conform perfectly to the historical past, then personal memories composing a life history are psychologically valid objects of analysis in their own right. "Once a given construction has acquired narrative truth, it becomes just as real as any other kind of truth.""