Book contents
- Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
- Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introducing the Book
- Chapter 2 The Science of Mental Illness
- Chapter 3 Vulnerability, Stress, and Burden in Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 Recovery and Mental Illness
- Chapter 5 Narrative Identity
- Chapter 6 Narrative Identity, Illness, and Well-Being
- Chapter 7 How Did We Collect and Analyze the Life Stories?
- Chapter 8 Overview of Narrative Identity Themes from the Initial Analyses
- Chapter 9 Relationship Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 10 Self Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 11 Functional-Level Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 12 Treatment Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 13 Summary and Synthesis
- Chapter 14 Understanding the Interplay between Narrative Identity and Mental Illness: A Framework
- Chapter 15 Tools for Narrative Repair
- Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Narrative Identity, Illness, and Well-Being
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
- Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introducing the Book
- Chapter 2 The Science of Mental Illness
- Chapter 3 Vulnerability, Stress, and Burden in Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 Recovery and Mental Illness
- Chapter 5 Narrative Identity
- Chapter 6 Narrative Identity, Illness, and Well-Being
- Chapter 7 How Did We Collect and Analyze the Life Stories?
- Chapter 8 Overview of Narrative Identity Themes from the Initial Analyses
- Chapter 9 Relationship Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 10 Self Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 11 Functional-Level Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 12 Treatment Themes in Narrative Identity
- Chapter 13 Summary and Synthesis
- Chapter 14 Understanding the Interplay between Narrative Identity and Mental Illness: A Framework
- Chapter 15 Tools for Narrative Repair
- Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 6, we first review ideas about how illness disrupts ongoing narratives and how narrative reorganization is required to make sense of illness. We touch on the role of communicating suffering through narrative and how listening to narratives allows healthcare professionals to take the perspective of service users. We then discuss proposals that constructing adaptive narrative identity may be essential in psychotherapy. Following this, we review studies demonstrating that individuals with psychopathology construct their narrative identity with less agency, communion, and positive meaning and that these same features are related to lower well-being. We outline possible relations between trauma, narrative identity, and psychopathology. Finally, we describe relevant studies of first-person perspectives on mental illness and explain how previous research relates to our life story analyses.
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- Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery , pp. 68 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023