This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005). In the first section authors provide a comprehensive account of Sarbin's life and career. The second section consists in a collection of ten publications from the last two decades of his career. The essays cover topics such as the adoption of contextualism as the appropriate world view for psychology, the establishment of narrative psychology as a major mode of inquiry, and the rejection both mechanism and mentalism as suitable approaches for psychology. The book is historically informed and yet focused on the future of psychological theory and practice.

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Part One:  The Life and Work of Theodore R.Sarbin.- 1.  A Sketch of Theodore R. Sarbin's Life.- 2.  Sarbin's Way: Overcoming Mentalism and Mechanism in Psychology.- Part Two:  A Selection of Works from the Autumn Harvest.- Introduction:  How and why these works were selected.- 3. The Narrative as Root Metaphor for Psychology.- 4. The Narrative Turn in Social Psychology.- 5.  Believed-in Imaginings:  A Narrative Approach.- 6.  The Role of Imagination in Narrative Construction.- 7. Emotions as Narrative Emplotments.- 8. The Dramaturgical Approach to Social Psychology:  The Influence of Erving Goffman.- 9. The Poetics of my Identities.- 10. Hypnosis:  A Fifty-Year Perspective.- 11. The Deconstruction of Stereotypes: Homosexuals and Military Policy, Sexual Orientation and the Military.- 12.  Honor as a Moral Category: A Historical-Linguistic Analysis.- Afterword:  Sarbin's importance for contemporary work on narrative psychology.