Redefining Self-Management as “Management of the Self”: A New Approach to Person-centered Care in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The Self beyond Somatic Symptoms: A Narrative Approach to Self-Experience in Adolescent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

“…For young patients, the self-discovered narrative theme can serve as a starting point from which they can explore concrete physical, personal and social situations influencing their self-experience. Alongside more standard treatments, we therefore suggest the further development of strategies to empower patients with functionally impairing somatic symptoms, which focus not only on the narrative integration of positive and negative self-experience, but ideally combine this with body-oriented techniques in a group setting [44]. By doing so, adolescents with severe bodily distress can be assisted toward a comprehensive ‘management of the self'.…”

Management of the self: An interdisciplinary approach to self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine

“…Since this remains relatively unacknowledged in most research on self-management at present, it is understandable that the existing approaches are criticized for not explicating their conceptual foundations, and for utilizing too restrictive models of the self (Weiner, 2011;Greenhalgh, 2009). Thus, to attain its full potential, self-management approaches in psychiatry and psychosomatics ought to start out from a "management of the self" (Van Geelen, 2013).…”

Self-management as management of the self: Future directions for healthcare and the promotion of mental health

“…At the same time, it is clear that self-management in the context of mental healthcare poses profoundly challenging problems (Van Geelen, 2013;Van Geelen, 2014), as we need to take into account that it is often "the self" that is part and parcel of the problem in psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions (Kyrios et al, 2015;Santhouse, 2008;Sadler, 2007). In the context of mental healthcare, then, self-management confronts us with fundamental questions: what is our understanding of this self in psychosomatic and psychiatric settings, and how does that understanding, directly or indirectly, affect diagnoses, treatment plans and nosology in the fields of psychopathology and psychosomatic medicine?…”