Identity Narrative as an Unconscious Scaffold for Human Autobiography

[1] Cavelzani, A., & Tronick, E. (2016). Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and therapeutic change in the interaction between analyst and adult patient. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 26(5), 599-615. Search in Google Scholar

[2] Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press. Search in Google Scholar

[3] Fitts, P. M. (1954). The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 381-391. Search in Google Scholar

[4] Habermas, T. (2007). How to tell a life: The development of the cultural concept of biography. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 1–31. Search in Google Scholar

[5] Habermas, T., & Bluck, S. (2000). Getting a life: The emergence of the life story in adolescence. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 748–769. Search in Google Scholar

[6] Kernberg, O. F. (2015). Neurobiological correlates of object relations theory: The relationship between neurobiological and psychodynamic development. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 24(1). Search in Google Scholar

[7] McAdams, D. (2001). When bad things turn good and good things turn bad: Sequences of redemption and contamination in life narrative and their relation to psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults and in students. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 27 (4): 474–485. Search in Google Scholar

[8] McGaugh, J. L. (1983). Preserving the presence of the past. Hormonal influence on memory storage. Am Psychologists, 39, 161-173. Search in Google Scholar

[9] McLean, K. (2005). Late adolescent identity development: Narrative meaning making and memory telling. Developmental Psychology, 41(4), 683-691. Search in Google Scholar

[10] McLean, K. C. & Breen, A. V. (2009). Processes and content of narrative identity development in adolescence: Gender and well-being. Developmental Psychology, 45(3). 702–710 Search in Google Scholar

[11] McLean, K. C., Pasupathi, M., & Pals, J. (2007). Selves creating stories creating selves: A process model of self-development. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 262–278. Search in Google Scholar

[12] Nelson, K., & Fivush, R. (2004). The emergence of autobiographical memory: A social cultural developmental theory. Psychological Review 2, 486-511. Search in Google Scholar

[13] Novac, A. (2013). Narrative and healing processes during psychotherapy: The reloading and implicit relegation hypothesis. Academy Forum, 57(2), 22-24. Search in Google Scholar

[14] Novac, A., & Bota, R. (2014). Transprocessing: A proposed neurobiological mechanism of psychotherapeutic processing. Mental Illness, 6(5077), 20-36. Search in Google Scholar

[15] Novac, A., Bota, R. G., & Blinder, B. (2017). Identity narrative density: Preliminary findings from scoring emotional valence of autobiographical events. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 81(4), 299-313. Search in Google Scholar

[16] Novac, A., McEwan, J. D., & Bota, R. G. (2014). Negative rumor: Contagion of a psychiatric department. Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, 16(2). Search in Google Scholar

[17] Novac, A., Tuttle, C. D., Bota, R., Yau, J. B., & Blinder, B. J. (2017). Identity and autobiographical narratives: Towards an integrated concept of personal history in psychiatry. Mental Health and Family Medicine, 13, 625-636. Search in Google Scholar

[18] Panksepp J. (1998a). Affective Neuroscience: The foundation of animal and human emotions. New York, Oxford University Press. Search in Google Scholar

[19] Panksepp J., & Northoff G. (2009). The trans-species core self: The emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecologic agents through self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 193-21. Search in Google Scholar

[20] Pennebaker, J. W. (1993). Putting stress into words: health, linguistic and therapeutic implications. Behav Res Ther 31(6):536-48 Search in Google Scholar

[21] Pennebaker, J.W. (2000). “Telling stories: The health benefits of narrative”. Literature and Medicine. 19: 3–18 Search in Google Scholar

[22] Recoeur, P. (1975, 1978). The rule of metaphor: Multi-disciplinary studies of the creation of meaning in language, trans. Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello. London. Routledge and Kegan. [check/confirm/validate this reference] Search in Google Scholar

[23] Recoeur, P. (1984, 1985, 1988). Time and Narrative, 3 vols. Trans. Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Search in Google Scholar

[24] Tadlock, D. (2005). Read right! Coaching your child to excellence in reading. New York: McGraw Hill. Search in Google Scholar

[25] Tulving, E. (2002). Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 1–25. Search in Google Scholar