Narrative coherence and disruption: Negotiating between positive and existential psychology

Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 129-148

  Hammond, Chad ^a   Teucher, Ulrich ^a   Hamoline, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0308-5_9     Document Type: Chapter

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