Emotions and Narrative Selves

Narrative Selves, Relations of Trust, and Bipolar Disorder

For some people with bipolar disorder, excessive self-trust in the manic phase conflicts with trusting themselves over time, and radical shifts in mood and activity can undermine their trustworthiness. Difficulties in trust interface with the ability to construct a narrative. Although the narrative self may be (for anyone) fragmented and disjointed, it can nevertheless provide an unfolding rati...

Criminal Narrative Experience: Relating Emotions to Offence Narrative Roles During Crime Commission.

A neglected area of research within criminality has been that of the experience of the offence for the offender. The present study investigates the emotions and narrative roles that are experienced by an offender while committing a broad range of crimes and proposes a model of criminal narrative experience (CNE). Hypotheses were derived from the circumplex of emotions, Frye, narrative theory, a...

Black Like Me? A Narrative Study of Non-Anglophone Black U.S. Immigrant Selves in the Making

Black Like Me? A Narrative Study of Non-Anglophone Black U.S. Immigrant Selves in the Making

True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity

Automata, Receptacles, and Selves

After rejecting Carruthers' conflation of levels of consciousness as implausible and conceptually muddled, and Carruthers' claim that nonhumans are automata as undermined by evolutionary and ethological considerations, we develop a general criticism of contemporary philosophical approaches which, though recognizing nonhuman consciousness, still see animals as mere receptacles of experiences. Th...