Dissociation in self-narrative

Authors

Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
Jonathan Cole, Poole Hospital

RIS ID

88981

Publication Details

Gallagher, S. and Cole, J. 2011, 'Dissociation in self-narrative', Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 149-155.

Abstract

We review different analytic approaches to narratives by those with psychopathological conditions, and we suggest that the interpretation of such narratives are complicated by a variety of phenomenological and hermeneutical considerations. We summarize an empirical study of narrative distance in narratives by non-pathological subjects, and discuss how the results can be interpreted in two different ways with regard to the issue of dissociation.