ABSTRACT
T he origin of the label narrative psychology is usually traced back to the work of Theodor Sarbin (1986) and the almost contemporary theoretical shift proposed by Jerome Bruner (1986, 1990), who stressed the increasing focus on information processing and the corresponding lesser degree of attention given to the construction of meaning in social psychology. According to Bruner, the so-called second cognitive revolution embodied individual mental processes into wider cultural and social processes, which fundamentally regard the social construction of meaning (László, 2004). Following Sarbin (1986), narratives play a fundamental function in structuring and giving meaning to human realities. In other words, the way in which people construct and communicate necessarily assumes the form of a narrative.
