This thesis focuses on theories of narrative selfhood, which emphasise the role and necessity of personal narrative for the constitution of the self and with it the individual's identity, values, beliefs and self-understanding. Through the analysis and comparison of a wide variety of theories, we have set the goal of creating a model or a key to facilitate an overview of the theories; if they are based on the same assumptions or characteristics of the self, the goal was to uncover what unites them and where the differences between them lie. In this body of work, we have also included theories and research from the fields of neuroscience and psychopathology. We noticed that, through questions of the constitution of the self and the role of narrative for the individual, it is possible to understand the theories under three different common denominators, which we have called the three perspectives of the narrative self: narrativist, embodied and social. The narrative self can be understood as a dynamic interplay of these three necessary perspectives, which also serve as the foundation of the proposed model.
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