The Integrative Function of Narrative Processing: Autobiographical Memory, Self-Defining Memories, and the Life Story of Identity

As we focused on his current problems with romantic relationships, and especially his passivity and inability to express his feelings, I raised the obvious connection to his family’s stoic style of communication. At that moment he told me of a memory that suddenly came to him and, as he did, tears welled up in his eyes and then flowed freely as he described the memory’s events.