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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Scheibe, Karl E.
• Barrett, Frank J.

Titel

A Sketch of Theodore R. Sarbin’s Life

Ist Teil von

• The Storied Nature of Human Life, p.3-37

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It was August 2005. Ted Sarbin was introduced to a packed auditorium at the conclusion of an American Psychological Association (APA) symposium on narrative psychology, held in Washington, DC. Kenneth Gergen chaired the session. Gergen had dedicated the symposium to Sarbin. It featured four presentations, followed by Sarbin’s commentary and discussion. He spoke incisively and appreciatively of the four presented papers and then concluded by remarking that even though he had more to say, he found himself to be out of breath. The audience, perhaps sensing that these were his final public words, rewarded him with a standing ovation. At the time, he had been an active member of APA for over 66 years—a record at that time. And those were, in fact, his final public words.