#3567. Exploring Core Addiction Themes and Their Resolution in Recovery Narratives Using the “Life as a Film” (LAAF) Procedure

October 2026publication date
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Linguistics and Language;
Developmental and Educational Psychology;
Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
Though narrative studies have provided important insights on addiction and recovery, social desirability and self-protective factors may limit the richness and relevance of standard “life story” accounts. Achieving this objective serves to model addiction and recovery in terms of narrative constructions and reconstructions. Interviewees completed a Recovery Inventory (RI), to compare narrative material with recovery outcomes. Content analysis revealed three structures: (1) a high prevalence Core Plot, featuring interpersonal conflict, negative arousal and self-management via substance use; (2) an Addiction Narrative, with themes of victimization, betrayal, compulsion, and escapist protagonists; and (3) a Recovery Narrative, with themes of redemption, self-mastery, caring, unity, and healer protagonists. Findings build on existing literature, suggesting narrative processes through which core conflicts become embedded in addiction stories and resolved in recovery stories.
Keywords:
social desirability; self-protective factors; richness; life story

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