Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Biography in Adult Development and Aging -- 2 The Meaning/Value of Personal Storytelling -- 3 Emotionality and Continuity in Biographical Contexts -- 4 Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening -- 5 Narrative Knowing and the Study of Lives -- 6 Competence and Quality of Life: Theoretical Views of Biography -- 7 The Fractal Structure of Lives: Continuity and Discontinuity in Autobiography -- 8 Narrating the Self in Adulthood -- 9 The Complexity of Personal Narratives -- 10 Ways of Life: Old Age in a Life History Perspective -- 11 Experienced Aging as Elucidated by Narratives -- 12 Beyond Life Narratives in the Therapeutic Encounter -- 13 Restorying a Life: Adult Education and Transformative Learning -- 14 Life Review and Reminiscence in Nursing Practice -- 15 Biographical Assessment in Community Care -- 16 Autobiography: Exploring the Self and Encouraging Development -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.