Psychologia narracyjna o rozwoju – komentarz

The present article is a critical commentary of Prof. Elżbieta Dryll’s paper Narrative Psychology on Development. The main goal of these considerations was to draw attention to the importance of theoretical reflection on development within the perspective of narrative psychology. Such reflection – although implied by the title of Prof. Dryll’s paper and explicit in her declaration that narrative psychology is “a plane for construing theory of human development” – was not the object of a comprehensive analysis. This shortage was then the reason to draw attention to topics and problems of importance to the theory of human development based on the assumptions of narrative psychology. These are problems such as theoretical and methodological consequences of the “narrative turn” that took place within the paradigm of social constructionism. This commentary also deals in a more detailed manner with consequences of three theses put forward by Prof. Dryll that are characteristic for narrative stance in viewing of the human development.