PERSONAL NARRATIVES DO NOT COME EASILY TO THE PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED SELF.

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  • Roberta Wells Imre

Abstract

The growth of philosophical and cultural views challenging the hegemony of our modernist perspective comes from a variety of directions and defies description under any one unifying banner. The most commonly used word we have for referring to these broad changes is "postmodern," an umbrella term with a very unclear definition. It is not surprising that we tend to evaluate our narratives by the criteria we have inherited as part of our tradition. Often we are not only uncomfortable with the new emphasis on subjectivities, an area previously taboo in professional writings, we find it almost impossible to avoid conventional evaluations, judgments and conceptualizations rooted in our Western philosophical heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]


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Author Biography

Roberta Wells Imre

Roberta Wells Imre is a social worker and writer. She was chair of the Group for the Study of Philosophical Issues in
Social Work. She lives in Staten Island, N.Y.

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2014-06-12

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Imre, R. W. (2014). PERSONAL NARRATIVES DO NOT COME EASILY TO THE PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED SELF. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 2(1), 63–65. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/417

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