The use of early recollections as a narrative aid in psychotherapy

Androutsopoulou, Athena

doi:10.1080/09515070.2013.814086

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“…Similar to past research, the psychiatric and psychological consultation we conducted proved to be pivotal for the patients to analyze the difficulties they had encountered ( Androutsopoulou, 2013 ; Cort et al, 2014 ; Kivlighan, 2014 ; Meffert et al, 2014 ; Renaud et al, 2014 ; Ryum et al, 2014 ; Sools and Schuhmann, 2014 ; Stewart-Sicking, 2015 ). Specifically in terms of FLR and FLF, the consultations helped patients analyze their difficulties, logic, emotions, and behaviors within the context of life situations, while we continued to work with them to improve on possible shortcomings they had demonstrated.…”

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“…In comparison, CBT focuses on correcting errors of thought without the main focus on current experiences and interpersonal relationships, including type of communication and, fundamentally, the words specifically verbalized by the parties (and not only prosody, but also pitch, mode, intensity, and frequency) (e.g., Cristea et al, 2013 ; Goldman et al, 2013 ). Narrative psychotherapy (NP) is distinctly different from LBP because the narrative does not always correspond to what actually happened in detail, and even if NP seeks to remake logical reasoning, it is not concerned with exploring logical functioning and does not provide the best possible way to analyze the situation (e.g., Boritz et al, 2011 ; Androutsopoulou, 2013 ). Finally, interpersonal psychotherapy looks to solve psychiatric symptoms rather than modify personal psychological structures or personality characteristics (e.g., Binder and Betan, 2013 ; Bernecker et al, 2014 ), while LBP distinctly considers focus its object of analysis on the logical reasoning and functioning with which patients became involved in the conflict ( Almeida et al, 2016 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Logic-Based Psychotherapy Approach to Treating Patients Which Focuses on Faultless Logical Functioning: A Case Study Method

Almeida

Moreira

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Many clinical patients present to mental health clinics with depressive symptoms, anxiety, psychosomatic complaints, and sleeping problems. These symptoms which originated may originate from marital problems, conflictual interpersonal relationships, problems in securing work, and housing issues, among many others. These issues might interfere which underlie the difficulties that with the ability of the patients face in maintaining faultless logical reasoning (FLR) and faultless logical functioning (FLF). FLR implies to assess correctly premises, rules, and conclusions. And FLF implies assessing not only FLR, but also the circumstances, life experience, personality, events that validate a conclusion. Almost always, the symptomatology is accompanied by intense emotional changes. Clinical experience shows that a logic-based psychotherapy (LBP) approach is not practiced, and that therapists’ resort to psychopharmacotherapy or other types of psychotherapeutic approaches that are not focused on logical reasoning and, especially, logical functioning. Because of this, patients do not learn to overcome their reasoning and functioning errors. The aim of this work was to investigate how LBP works to improve the patients’ ability to think and function in a faultless logical way. This work describes the case studies of three patients. For this purpose we described the treatment of three patients. With this psychotherapeutic approach, patients gain knowledge that can then be applied not only to the issues that led them to the consultation, but also to other problems they have experienced, thus creating a learning experience and helping to prevent such patients from becoming involved in similar problematic situations. This highlights that LBP is a way of treating symptoms that interfere on some level with daily functioning. This psychotherapeutic approach is relevant for improving patients’ quality of life, and it fills a gap in the literature by describing original case analyses.

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A Logic-Based Psychotherapy Approach to Treating Patients Which Focuses on Faultless Logical Functioning: A Case Study Method

Almeida

Moreira

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…It is important that the voices of therapists and therapy group members are empathic and compassionate (Herman, 2011), so that a safe environment is created where affect, such as fear, shame, anger, but also hope and a sense of mastery, can be gradually incorporated into the narrative of the traumatized person. This is not a given; for instance, new members often reproduce the critical voices they have grown up with, so they need to learn to give compassionate feedback by listening to therapists' and older group members' conversations (see Androutsopoulou, 2013Androutsopoulou, , 2015.…”

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“My broken chrysalis”: Narrative processes in Woolf’s autobiographical writings of sexual trauma.

Androutsopoulou¹

2021

Qualitative Psychology

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Narrating stories is the means by which persons struggle to create meaning. In the case of trauma, creation of meaning is a hard and complicated task, and narratives may remain disrupted and incomplete. In 3 autobiographical writings, 2 of which were delivered as speeches to a friendly audience, English author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) revealed a sexual trauma caused by 1 of her half-brothers, George Duckworth, in her early adulthood. In the present psychobiography study, using narrative inquiry, we sought to examine the narrative processes in Virginia Woolf's storytelling of her traumatic experience as she struggled to create meaning. The analysis showed that, Virginia Woolf: (a) structured her texts by placing trauma revelation as the end point in her first narration, and as a necessary deviation prior to the main story in her second narration; (b) used a range of narrative strategies to moderate emotion; and (c) constructed the trauma story around 2 intertwined themes in an effort to understand characters and motives. Like many victims of sexual or physical abuse, Virginia Woolf found it difficult to associate affect to her descriptions. This difficulty, of which she became painfully aware at the end of her struggle, proved to be an important obstacle in completing her trauma narrative and in creating satisfactory meaning out of her experience. Several clinical implications are discussed on the grounds that a psychobiography study is essentially a case formulation which can inform clinical work.

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“…The wording of the instructions minimizes threat by placing the self in various safe positions in time and space other than the I as author and me as actor in the present time (see also Freedman & Combs, 1996; Gergen & Kaye, 1992; Tomm, 1998). Interested readers can find more details concerning therapeutic uses of the specific instructions in Androutsopoulou, (2001a, 2001b, 2013).…”

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Moments of meaning: Identifying inner voices in the autobiographical texts of ‘Mark’.

Androutsopoulou¹

2015

Qualitative Psychology

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This case study presents a method of identifying inner voices, a method based on thematic narrative analysis of client autobiographical texts. The study adopts a narrative psychology view of the self as self-narrative, but also enriches it with aspects of dialogical self-theory; the self-narrative is seen as comprising many parts, I-positions, or inner voices that participate in an ongoing inner and outer dialogue. Analyzed are a variety of texts written by ‘Mark,’ a 67-year-old client facing deterioration of his chronic illness. The texts were written at the start of a systemic-and-narrative-informed long-term therapy and were generated based on instructions that placed the self in various safe positions in time and space. A thematic narrative analysis revealed at least 2 dominant and 2 silenced voices. As a way of enhancing validity, the analysis was extended to include a self-description written by the client at the end of his long term therapy; there, previously identified silenced voices participated in inner dialogue, and a new reflexive voice made its appearance as the result of a therapy. It is argued that the inner voice identification method offers a useful tool for both research and therapy.

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The use of early recollections as a narrative aid in psychotherapy

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

A Logic-Based Psychotherapy Approach to Treating Patients Which Focuses on Faultless Logical Functioning: A Case Study Method

A Logic-Based Psychotherapy Approach to Treating Patients Which Focuses on Faultless Logical Functioning: A Case Study Method

“My broken chrysalis”: Narrative processes in Woolf’s autobiographical writings of sexual trauma.

Moments of meaning: Identifying inner voices in the autobiographical texts of ‘Mark’.

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