Reaching for Meaning: Human Agency and the Narrative Imagination

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-233

  Brockmeier, Jens ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

agency; Critical Psychology; meaning making; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249105976     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309103540     Document Type: Article

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