Ch. 1 Narrative psychology and historical consciousness : relationships and perspectives / Donald E. Polkinghorne 3

Ch. 2 Past and present as narrative constructions / Jerome S. Bruner 23

Ch. 3 Telling stories, making history : toward a narrative psychology of the historical construction of meaning / Jurgen Straub 44

Ch. 4 Narrative, moral identity, and historical consciousness : a social constructionist account / Kenneth J. Gergen 99

Ch. 5 Narrative truth and identity formation : abduction and abuse stories as metaphors / Donald P. Spence 120

Ch. 6 The concept of time and the faculty of judgment in the ontogenesis of historical consciousness / Micha Brumlik 135

Ch. 7 Historical consciousness : the progress of knowledge in a postprogressive age / Peter Seixas 141

Ch. 8 Empirical psychological approaches to the historical consciousness of children / Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Monika Hausen 163

Ch. 9 The psychological study of historical consciousness / Samuel S. Wineburg 187

Ch. 10 Biography - a dream? : self-chronicling in the age psychoanalysis / Brigitte Boothe 211

Ch. 11 Authenticity and authority : on understanding the Shoah / Alexandre Metraux 228

Ch. 12 Albert Speer's memories of the future : on the historical consciouness of a leading figure in the third Reich / Harald Welzer 245