ABSTRACT
Traumatic experiences seem to prompt the sufferer eventually to construct an account of that experience, and to make attributions about their own illness, if that is what was involved (Brewin 1988; Molvaer et al. 1992). In the last ten years psychologists have also come to realise that accounts do show ‘perspectivity’ (Harré et al. 1985), that is: it is pretty well impossible to represent complex series of events and experiences from a singular viewpoint. Multiple accounts therefore are needed to do justice to the phenomena (Spence 1987).
