Examples of reminiscence

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He held that individuals with flexible, resilient and self-aware personalities were most likely to benefit from reviewing their past through reminiscence.
Sustaining sibling contact might facilitate reminiscence processes and the resolution of losses.
The reminiscences increase readability although they can be distracting.
He surprised me with how low key some of his reminiscences are.
The author relies totally on official documentation and expresses regrets that no one has recorded the reminiscences of the colonized.
The book is unusually varied, comprising poems, dialogues, personal reminiscences, chapters interlarded with proverbs, quotes from the honoree's works, and conventional papers.
While these reminiscences do not solve any mysteries, they could eventually help to shed new light on significant but as yet unresolved biographical questions.
Given such prompts, some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences.
The result is that the way reminiscences are communicated and presented may depend on the energy, resources and enthusiasms of those engaged as facilitators.
They range from short reminiscences through to bold polemical statements and on to detailed reconstructions of discreet historical episodes.
Their conversational topics also reflect their closeness and camaraderie, full of reminiscences of par ties, class trips, past girlfriends, and previous times spent together.
To the historian, then, the memories and reminiscences found in the archives form an important resource in the attempt to reconstruct and interpret the past.
The production of a book of his reminiscences began immediately with the help of his partner and parents.
Countless reminiscences recall the uniquely stimulating and searching atmosphere at the court of this philosopher-king.
Murphy seems to have left very few personal papers and only a few recorded reminiscences, the veracity of which might, as noted above, be doubted.
The final sections of the book abandon any attempt to provide a comprehensive narrative, dealing with generally inconsequential reminiscences culled from the interview material.
The claim that people's reminiscences are reconstructed does not preclude the possibility that people have encoded complete and accurate records of their past.
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