This commentary discusses David Edwards’s (2022) case study of "Kelly’s circle safety and healing: An extended schema therapy narrative interpretative investigation," published in Pragmatic Case Studies Psychotherapy. It examines efforts to integrate his imagistic/experiential therapeutic approach a client’s maladaptive schemas based childhood recollections with contemporary model autobiographi...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often associated with verbal memory deficits, which could influence treatment outcome. We assessed neuropsychological functioning in individuals with PTSD and their response to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Treatment non-responders had significantly poorer performance on measures of verbal memory compared with responders and demonstrated narrative...

This article explores the ways in which stories serve a structuring function in three Portuguese American memoirs. The article also examines the use of stories as a way to weave together the gap between memory and inherited memory (Hirsch, 2012), arguing that the stories produce texts that carefully choreograph between inherited family stories and inherited cultural memories, creating a layerin...

The authors present a multicomponent dynamic developmental theory of human autobiographical memory that emerges gradually across the preschool years. The components that contribute to the process of emergence include basic memory abilities, language and narrative, adult memory talk, temporal understanding, and understanding of self and others. The authors review the empirical developmental evid...