Personal Narratives in Trauma-Related Disorders: Contributions from a Metacognitive Approach and Treatment Considerations

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2025-01-30
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Traumatic experiences are significant life events that are thought to impact one's personal life narrative and narrative identity. Individuals who have experienced trauma may display fragmented memories and decreased narrative cohesion, resulting in trauma narratives that are disjointed and poorly integrated into the larger picture of their lives. Metacognition, defined as the ability to form increasingly complex and integrated ideas about the self, others, and the wider world, offers a framework to better understand life narratives and has been proposed as a construct that allows personal narratives to evolve in response to new experiences. In this paper, we will review the alterations commonly observed in trauma narratives. We will utilize the integrated model of metacognition as a framework to understand these deviations with an eye toward clinical implications. Although treatments that focus on trauma narratives exist, we argue that the study of metacognition provides unique insights into the process of integration of traumatic experience into an evolving personal narrative and may allow for more complete treatment of trauma-related disorders.

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Wiesepape CN, Smith EA, Muth AJ, Faith LA. Personal Narratives in Trauma-Related Disorders: Contributions from a Metacognitive Approach and Treatment Considerations. Behav Sci (Basel). 2025;15(2):150. Published 2025 Jan 30. doi:10.3390/bs15020150
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