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Abstract
After the occurrence of a disruptive illness, questions tend to arise about oneself and one's way of life and its moral meaning. These questions concern what kind of person one is and how one can sustain one's identity and self-image in the face of disruptive events. In this sense, the reconstruction of a life narrative is a moral quest. In this article, an analysis is presented of an interview with a former psychiatric patient concerning his mental illness and experience of psychosis. The analysis of this man's reconstructive work shows that he assigns the disruptive event a particular place in his life narrative to invest it with meaning and sense. This means not only establishing what has happened but also why it has happened. An important condition for the narrativization of disruptive events is the identification of a "platform," which can serve as a basis from which the reconstructive work can start. The platform defines the point from which a connection with one's previous life can be established. The identification of a platform can be viewed as the formulation of a voice; that is to say, a kind of normative order of the relation among the actions, events, and persons who figure in the life narrative. (Psychology)

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Interpretation of Statute Consistently with International Law — International Maritime Law — Exterritorial Effect of Legislation Relating to Seamen.Jurisdiction — In Port — Action by Foreign Seaman Against Foreign Shipowner for Injury Sustained in Foreign Port — Statute Giving Right of Action to Seamen Suffering Personal Injury in the Course of Their Employment — Extraterritorial Effect of Legislation.Treaties Interpretation of Avoidance of Conflict with International Law.Jurisdiction — Miscellaneous — Exterritorial Effects of Legislation — Statute Giving Right of Action to Seamen Suffering Personal Injuries in the Course of Their Employment — Action by Foreign Seaman Against Foreign Shipowner for Injury Sustained in Foreign Port — International Maritime Law — The Law of the Flag — Interpretation of Statute Consistently with International Law — The Law of the United States of America.

Henry Astrup Larsen was the first man to traverse the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, beginning his historic voyage in Vancouver in 1940 and ending it in Halifax in 1942. Within two years of this major success, Larsen navigated the Passage from east to west, thus scoring another "first" by crossing the continent in both directions. In 1940, desirous of asserting its sovereignty over the Arctic Islands, the Canadian government entrusted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with the task of patrolling this barren, largely unexplored region of half a million square miles. Corporal Henry Larsen, captain of th R.C.M.P. schooner St. Roch and a 16-years veteran of the Arctic, was chosen as a key figure in this dangerous, ambitious, and politically expedient undertaking.