Larry Cochran is Professor in the Department of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Joan Laub is a Psychotherapist in private practice at Trauma Treatment Services, Englewood, Colorado.

• Preface 1. Personal Agency 2. Enhancing Agency 3. Phases of Transformation 4. Themes of Passage 5. Scenes of Destruction 6. A Narrative of Agency Bibliography Index

"The topic may be the central issue in personality and counseling today. The perspective, namely the narrative paradigm, is emerging as the vantage point drawing the most discourse in the social sciences as we head for the turn of the century."Cochran is the leading voice in the move of career psychology to reform itself into an interpretive discipline. His accumulated achievements in applying the narrative paradigm to career development and counseling represent the most innovative and important contribution of a single scholar to contemporary career theory." — Mark L. Savickas, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine