Patients suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develop self-narratives that are ‘too rigid’ or ‘too coherent’. Narrative therapies are developed to make the self-narrative more...Show morePatients suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develop self-narratives that are ‘too rigid’ or ‘too coherent’. Narrative therapies are developed to make the self-narrative more flexible by re-telling it (Jongedijk, 2014). However, these therapies are not as effective as some other treatments for PTSD (American Psychiatric Association, 2017). This could be explained by using the hyperreflexivity model (Fuchs, 2011) which illustrates how patients suffering from anxiety, mood- and sleep disorders overly reflect on their life. Therefore, retelling the self-narrative during narrative therapy may rather stimulate the rigidity of the self-narrative than make the self-narrative more flexible. Traumatic events and PTSD symptoms, such as flashbacks, are often experienced in a sensorial and ‘wordless’ way. Therefore, the traumatic experience and symptoms could be treated better by using narratives that include conditions of embodiment (Menary, 2008). Literature on embodied and body narratives (Gallagher & Hutto, 2017) are discussed and applied to the standard concept of narrative therapies. It will be concluded that working with a novel concept of a self-narrative that includes conditions of embodiment leads to better results in the narrative treatments of PTSD.Show less