ABSTRACT
In the framework of McAdams, the third line of personality development is the person as autobiographical author. It refers to integrative narratives by reconstructing the past, present, and the anticipated future. McAdams describes the development of an autobiographical author starting from episodic memory and then moving to a life story and narrative identity. This chapter describes self-reflections of some aspects of life and turning points of life as the indicators of an individual's reconstruction of their life. Perttula made a phenomenological psychological analysis of 26 men's interviews, and developed a framework for it which he called a multi-triangular model. He introduced the construct of "experienced life-fabric", which resembles the construct of "life-structure" by Levinson. Perttula distinguished six nonquantifiable continua with two opposite meanings at the extremes that differentiate between the types. Every type appears as a unique combination of these six features.
