Georgiadis Emmanouil, Johnson Mark I
School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, United Kingdom.
Centre for Pain Research, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Front Pain Res (Lausanne). 2023 Oct 6;4:1253310. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1253310. eCollection 2023.
In this perspective paper, we argue for incorporating personal narratives in positive psychology interventions for chronic pain. Narratives refer to the telling and retelling of events. Narratives detail accounts of events and provide rich, in-depth information on human interactions, relationships, and perspectives. As such, narratives have been used to understand people's experiences with pain and pain coping mechanisms-as well as to facilitate therapeutic outcomes. Furthermore, narrative research has shown that narration can help restore and promote relief, calm, hope, self-awareness, and self-understanding in chronic pain sufferers. Positive psychology interventions have been successful in improving the lives of people living with chronic pain, but these psychology interventions do not typically incorporate personal narratives. Still, narrative, and positive psychology scholarship foci overlap, as both aim to enhance people's quality of life, happiness, and well-being, and to promote the understanding of psychosocial strengths and resources. In this article, we provide a rationale for incorporating personal narratives as an agentic form of positive psychology intervention. To that aim, we outline areas of convergence between positive psychology and narrative research and show how combining positive psychology exercises and narration can have additive benefits for pain sufferers. We also show how integrating narration in positive psychology intervention research can have advantages for healthcare research and policy.
在这篇观点阐述文章中，我们主张将个人叙事纳入慢性疼痛的积极心理学干预之中。叙事指的是对事件的讲述与反复讲述。叙事详细描述事件经过，并提供有关人际互动、关系及观点的丰富、深入信息。正因如此，叙事已被用于理解人们的疼痛经历及疼痛应对机制，以及促进治疗效果。此外，叙事研究表明，叙事有助于慢性疼痛患者恢复并促进缓解、平静、希望、自我意识和自我理解。积极心理学干预在改善慢性疼痛患者的生活方面已取得成功，但这些心理学干预通常并未纳入个人叙事。尽管如此，叙事与积极心理学的学术焦点存在重叠，因为二者都旨在提高人们的生活质量、幸福感和福祉，并促进对心理社会优势及资源的理解。在本文中，我们为将个人叙事作为积极心理学干预的一种能动形式提供了理论依据。为此，我们概述了积极心理学与叙事研究的交汇领域，并展示了将积极心理学练习与叙事相结合如何能给疼痛患者带来额外益处。我们还展示了将叙事融入积极心理学干预研究对医疗保健研究和政策的优势。
