Believed-in imaginings : the narrative construction of reality / edited by Joseph de Rivera and Theodore R. Sarbin.

Papers presented at a conference held at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., May 24-25, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Believed-in imaginings : a narrative approach / Theodore R. Sarbin / Theodore R. Sarbin -- Believed-in imaginings : whose words, beliefs, imaginings and metaphors? / Morton Wiener -- Replicas, imitation, and the question of authenticity / Karl E. Scheibe -- Imagination and true belief : a cross-cultural perspective / Penelope G. Vinden -- Childhood imagination in the face of chronic illnes / Cindy Dell Clark -- A developmental perspective on the construction of disbelief / Richard J. Gerrig and Bradford H. Pillow -- Rendering the implausible plausible : narrative construction, suggestion, and memory / Steven Jay Lynn ... [et al.] -- Dreaming, believing, and remembering / Giuliana A.L. Mazzoni and Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Volition as a believed-in imagining / Irving Kirsch -- Relinquishing believed-in imaginings : narratives of people who have repudiated false accusations / Joseph de Rivera -- Social construction of satanic ritual abuse and the creation of false memories / Jeffrey S. Victor -- The mythic properties of popular explanations / Donald P. Spence -- Imaginings of parenthood : artificial insemination, experts, gender relations, and paternity / Jill G. Morawski -- Women's stories of hidden selves and secret knowledge : a psychoanalytic feminist analysis / Janice Haaken -- The proof is in the passion : emotion as an index of veridical memory / Michael Kenny -- The poetic construction of reality and other explanatory categories / Theodore R. Sarbin -- Evaluating believed-in imaginings / Joseph de Rivera.

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