ABSTRACT
Many studies with the title ‘the origins and history of . . .’ seem to have been once predominantly considered as ‘developmental’. If not focusing on the causes of development as such, often these studies were concerned with chronological sequences or stages of development assumed to be universal facts. However, these kind of linear or reductive approaches now seem to be less dominant and there is a shift in the direction of exploring dynamic processes more deeply in the here and now. This includes the consideration of, for example, a person’s subjectivity, intersubjectivity between people and in groups, the dynamic relationship between researcher and researched, both the conscious and the unconscious influence of various contexts of life, and the processes of continuous construction and reconstruction of, for instance, history or identity.
