“We shape the world in which we live, thereby creating our own ‘reality’ withing a context of a community of others. (…) This narrative or sense of self arises not only through discourse with others, but is our discourse with others.”
Lax, W. (2008) Postmodern thinking in a Clinical Practice. In S. McNamee & K. Gergen (Eds.) Therapy as Social Construction. (p. 71). Los Angeles: Sage.
“(…) following a traumatic event, people are thought to engage in a struggle to reconcile the immediate, situational meaning of the event with the more enduring, global meaning that corresponds with meaning in life (…) When people are forced to revise their global meaning in the face of trauma, it is called accommodation”
Steger, M. (2012). Making Meaning in Life. Psychology Inquiry, 23, 381-385.
The Ethical Imperative! “Act always so as to increase the number of choices.”. A preferred form is “I always act so as to increase the number of choices”.