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In the preceding chapter, I examined the role of self-help groups for the transition from biographical invalidation to reinforcement. These two patterns of biographical self-construction, which I presented in chapter 5, stand in close relation to my basic interpretative hypothesis of “diagnosis of the self”. The idea that the sudden confrontation with the prospect of imminent death may trigger the invalidation of a particularly cherished element of one’s previously taken-for-granted self-definition has guided my analysis of the invalidation and reinforcement patterns as a hypothesis-forming model.
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Rinken, S. (2000). Contrasting Patterns. In: The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9502-5_7
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