self-story

English

Alternative forms

• self story

Etymology

From self- +‎ story.

Noun

self-story (plural self-stories)

1. A story or account specific to oneself.
   • 2004, Hubert J.M. Hermans, Giancarlo Dimaggio, The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy, page 79:

     This process facilitates the construction of a more comprehensive and coherent account of the client's self-story.

   • 2014, John Marzillier, The Trauma Therapies:

     Therapeutically, the goal of ACT is not so much to alter a person's self-story but to weaken their attachment to it.

   • 2018, Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Self-Concept Clarity:

     Further, is there a difference between the individual who is writing the self-story and the self whose story is being written?