Valuation Theory

- A narrative theory about meaning construction and reconstruction

- Rooted in contextualism (in Pepper's sense)

- Basic metaphor: The self as motivated storyteller

- As storytelling the self is dialogical and multivoiced

- Time and space are central:

temporal structure of the theory: telling and retelling of one's self-narrative

interest in connections between past, present, and future

spatial structure of the theory: the person tells a story from a particular position in an imaginal

space; there is always a counter-position (antagonist,  an agreeing or disagreeing other)

For a detailed exposition of the theory see the book Self-Narratives: The Construction of Meaning in Psychotherapy

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