ABSTRACT
information obtained in the analytic setting is different from that emanating from biography, autobiography, random sampling, structured interviews, philosophical contemplation, or other modes of data collection. It seems to bear a stronger resemblance to actual developmental processes than to scientific pursuits in that absolute truth is less an ultimate goal than is the making of meaning and the finding of sense in what has transpired and in what is occurring and recurring. Continuity as a principle of the ongoing life of the mind pulls for the construction of causal sequences and meaningful patternings. The veridicality of these constructions may be limited to the conceptual framework in which they are devised and divined.
