Program

8:30 – 9:00: Welcome + Coffee

9:00 – 9:15: Opening speech

9:15 – 10:10: Keynote speaker

Christin Camia 

10:10 – 10:50: Short oral presentations

• How to to analyze the effect of narrative scaffolding? A manual for the co-construction of life narratives. Márcia Almeida

• Awareness of Narrative Identity: A review of Studies of a Novel Construct. David Hallford

• The Autobiographical Memory Functions of Tattoo Events. Kristina Klug

10:50 - 11:15: Coffee break + pastries

11:15 – 12:10: Short oral presentations

• Chapters in Life Narratives: A group comparison of children living in and out of family context. Pedro Saraiva

• Scaffolding social perspective taking in children exposed to adverse childhood experiences: A focus on interpersonal anger narratives. Bartoli Eleonora

• A sample of late midlife adults in the U.S. tend to narrate their lives with increasing self-actualization and decreasing regret as they age. Hollen N. Reischer

• Telling to understand: the narrative transformation of the Self. Andrea Smorti

12:10 – 13:05: Keynote speaker

Tilmann Habermas: Narrative and Emotion

13:05 – 14:30: Lunch + Poster session 

14:30 – 15:50: Short oral presentations

• Personality determinants of narrative identity awareness in general samples. Sikora Barbara

• Leitmotifs in Life Stories. Religious Narrative Identity in Faith Development Interviews across Time. Bullik, Ramona

• Religious, Spiritual, and Therapeutic Options of Healing: Master Narratives and (Emerging) Alternative Narratives in Consecutive Autobiographical Interviews on God and the World. Keller Barbara

• The Stories We Share; The Stories We Hide - The Role Of Family Memories In Narrative Identities Of Descendants Of Former Belgian Colonists. Louise Ballière & Wouter Reggers

• Parental cognitions of 1.5-generation Ethiopian parents who immigrated to Israel as children: Intergenerational transmission, acculturation and identity. Ruty Wondimagen

• Growing up in the shadow of a Nazi collaborator. Aline Cordonnier

15:50 – 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:10: Keynote speaker

Kate McLean: Challenges to the Notion of Self-Authorship: A Structural-Psychological Approach to Narrative Identity Research (and Beyond)

19:00 Conference Dinner

8:30 – 9:00: Welcome + Coffee

9:00 – 9:55: Keynote speaker

Dorthe K. Thomsen : Narrative identity, mental illness, and personal recovery

9:55 – 11:00: Short oral presentations

• Life story and clinical populations. Marie-Charlotte Gandolphe & Mélissa C. Allé

• Meaning Making and Self-Event Connections in Autobiographical Memories of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder. Clara De Groote

• Antisociality and psychopathy: do their faces reflect their emotional experiences when recalling personal memories? Fanny Degouis

11:00 – 11:20: Coffee Break + pastries

11:20 – 12:40: Short oral presentations

• The basic self, narrative self, and narrative identity in psychopathology. Henry Cowan

• Narrative identity and personality pathology: an exploration of associations from a dimensional and categorical perspective in a clinical sample of youth. Ben Baaijens

• Self-defining memories in adolescents; the quest for a signature. Rudloff Juan Barrios

• Adolescents’ Life Narrative Coherence and their Well-being and Personality: Exploratory Study. Filipa Salomé

• The impact of multi-crises on individuals’ identity, mental health and cognitive functioning: The case of Lebanon. Mary Fares

12:40 – 13:00: Invited talk

Sci-dip, making your science accessible and useful to all. Laura-Joy Boulos

13:00 – 14:30: Lunch + Poster session     

14:30 – 15:50: Short oral presentations 

• A multi-year study examining relations between narrative identity, mental health and physical health. Majse Lind

• Meaning making about and across important experiences: Links with well-being and identity processes of commitment and exploration. Elisabeth L. de Moor

• Established and novel narrative themes predict relationship well-being in COVID-19 challenge narratives of newly married Hispanic couples in the United States. Hollen N.

• Adolescents with cystic fibrosis expressing their possible selves through photography: an explorative longitudinal qualitative research. Maxime Morsa

• Measuring fulfilled and thwarted themes of agency and communion and narrative coherence on biographical turning points—research in a sample following shoulder arthroscopy. Soroko Emilia

• Cognitive-Narrative Therapy for IPV Victims: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Moreira André

15h50 - 16h10  Coffee Break 

16:10 – 17:05: Keynote speaker

Lynne Angus: From same old storytelling to self-narrative identity change:  Tracking key markers of narrative and emotional change in videotaped psychotherapy sessions

17:05: Closure talk & Best Posters Award

Poster session 1 : Day 1 (June 29)
13h05 -14h30

• A Focus on the Content of Adolescents’ Educational Identity Processes around the School Transition. Annabelle H.T. Christiaens

• Changes in the expression of agency and patiency in psychotherapeutic discourse: a longitudinal study of psychoanalytic treatment. Eszter Beran

• Classroom Drama Interventions for migrants in school – a means to enhance narrative identity construction in a culturally complex context ? Yağmur Gökduman

• Anxiety and Possible Selves: Exploring the Characteristics and Perceived Dynamism of Future Self Thoughts. Jessica Duffy

• The Stories We Share and The Support We Receive : Examining The Reception of Support-Seeking Narratives Online. Nadia Adelina 

• Constructing motherhood in times of isolation. Meganck Reitske

• The impact of soothing media and the anxiety and depression traits on the content of prospective mental imagery. A qualitatively driven photo-elicitation study. Catarina Gouveia Gaglianone

• Autobiographical memory in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: contribution and interest of the autobiographical narrative assessment. Stéphanie Maziero

• A Narrative Sequencing and Mentalizing Training for Adults with Autism. Tom Bylemans

• Fragmented Selves? Comparing Self-concept Structure in Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychosis, and Non-clinical Comparisons. Donath Wencke

• Cognitive-Narrative Trauma and Grief Intervention in Children in Residential Care. Margarida Rangel Henriques

• Narrative Work Identity and Resilience among Teachers: A Study-in-progress. Dela Sawatzki

• Personal Future Projections of Immigrants: What is the Effect of Remembering the Past? Kara Demet

• (Re)defining who I am and who I will be: the impact of multiple sclerosis on autobiographical memory, future thinking and the self. Emeline Massin

• The traumatic experience of people with antisocial personality disorder: What impact on the recall of Self-Defining Memories? Fanny Degouis

• Autistic and non-autistic women's written narratives of emotional autobiographical memories: a linguistic analysis. Florence Merken 

• Theoretical and Clinical Proposal of the Self in Schizophrenia. Florestan Delcourt 

Poster session 2 : Day 2 (June 30)
13h00 - 14h30

• Exploring the impact of traumatic experiences on self-defining memory characteristics in Alcohol Use Disorder. Constance Beaumont

• Self-esteem development during the education-to-work transition: The role of narrative agency and communion. Guðmundsdóttir Guðrún R.

• Contributions of gender and alexithymia to the characteristics of self-defining memories. Juan Barriosa

• The Emotional Content of Life Story Chapters in Individuals with a High Suicide Risk: An Ongoing Case Control Study. Marie Tranberg Hansen

• How does episodic and semantic autobiographical memory contribute to self-continuity? Evidence of preserved narrative identity over time in episodic amnesia. Odysse M. Davis

• Stability and Change in the Life Story of Individuals with Schizophrenia: A Two-Year Follow-Up. Jensen Rikke Amalie Agergaard

• Can virtual nature scenes stimulate positive imagination? A proof- of concept study. Catarina Gouveia Gaglianone

• Conceptual Self and Autobiographical Memories in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa. Capucine Saugrain

• Exploring Historical Consciousness: Individual Differences in Incorporating the Recollection of Major Historical Events into the Personal Life Story. Ture Sebnem

• Working with Life Stories: How Preparing, Telling and Hearing Life Stories may Affect Personal Recovery of Peer Workers. Signe Brand

• The story of us: Remembering the life with lost loved ones. Tabea Wolf

• Exploring Identity-based Care Practices for People with a Severe Mental Illness: Perspectives from Spiritual Caregivers, Therapists and Experience Experts. Elske Kronemeijer

• Self-defining memories in elderly: distribution across lifespan and characteristics of the reminiscence bump. Virginie Voltzenlogel

• Attachment and autobiographical memory of patients who had received head and neck cancer surgery. Charlotte Vandamme

• How the Traumatic Event is Integrated into the Narrative Self: Adapted and Semiautomatic Coding Systems of Trauma Narrative. Lucie Quibeuf

• Personal narratives of mental illness: from hostage to survivor. Luciana White