Why not have a data file as to how the different themes might be used with chronic pain management?Why reinvent ideas all the time?
Strengthening a person’s resources to improve their long term use. Why not have a data file as to how the different themes might be used with chronic pain management?
Why not have a data file as to how the different themes might be used with chronic pain management? Why reinvent ideas all the time?
My name is Eugene Irvin
I find it amazing that the thoughts and experiences with themes from so many therapists are lost for easy access or oftentimes no access at all.
Designing a data file of different ways that themes might be used with chronic pain management might open up connections that may not be readily apparent. Insights might result.
The data file has to be designed for quick access to ideas rather than it just being an almost inert collection of information. It must be practical and not just in vague generic type terminology. It must be simple in its presentation.
There can be all sorts of reasons a therapist may want to change the theme content in their metaphors used with chronic pain management.
It may be as simple as the therapist wanting to change things to make it more interesting for the person or possibly that they themselves have simply run out of ideas.
I have not done this data file yet but I cannot see why it would not be a good thing to do.
It would not be difficult to do. I will be fascinated by your comments, debate, and especially constructive criticisms.
There is a link to my themes list. I emphasise this is just my list and I am sure others might improve upon it.
Thank you
Themes
This is just my list of different types of Themes one might use. Every person could generate their own list.
Types of Themes
Two main divisions with all categories: ACTIVE or PASSIVE.
Time dimension
Client Activities
Mind Issues
Symbolism
Non-Living Things
Animals/ Plants
Time Dimension🡆
(1) Past.
(2) Present.
(3) Future.
Client Activities🡆
(1) Business-Work-Occupation Activity.
(2) Pastime-Interest-Loves- Hobby Activities.
(3) Social Activities [visiting a friend, any type of interaction with a friend or neighbour, group activity]
(4) Family Activities.
(5) Everyday activities.
(7) Physical activity [Sitting in sun, swimming, playing sport, driving a car, going for a walk]
(8) Entertainment activist [Going to cinema]
(9) Physiological Activity [Gastro-intestinal, respiratory, cardiovascular, dermal reactions]
(10) Spiritual Activity [Church, seances]
(11) Skill acquisition [School, classrooms, apprenticeships]
(12) Practice [The practice can be a practice with potentially anything.]
(13) Education [Anything to do with learning]
(14) Role playing – acting out
- Playing someone they admire.
For example: Become a famous athlete, brilliant surgeon, an orchestra conductor, a `pop’ singer with an audience of thousands.
- Playing themselves.
- Playing real life people they know.
- Playing real life people they know from books-media.
- Playing fictional people from books, movies.
- Playing inanimate objects. Not alive.
- Playing animals ranging from the smallest insect to the largest animal.
- Playing someone who is `made up.’ No one specific- it is `made up.’
Mind Issues🡆
(1) Self concept-self image.
(2) Mind Control
(3) Mind Works.
(4) Learning.
(5) Memory.
(6) Thinking
(7) Understanding.
(8) Information Gathering
Symbolism🡆
(1) Mythical Characters.
(2) Magical-Supernatural involvement (Magic mirror, flying blanket, science fiction, fairy tales)
(3) Made up images- Bizarre (Can range from mild to bizarre)
(4) Special place (Island/ Room/ Place/ etc of serenity, of forgiveness)
(5) Special Thing (Ugly duckling, cloud car)
(6) Metaphor.
(7) Parables.
Nonliving Things 🡆
(1) Weather (Clouds, storms, breezes)
(2) Geology (Tectonic plates, coal, granite, escarpments, scree slopes, volcanoes)
(3) Places (Endless possibilities for places, e.g., universe room, attic, sky, snake pit)
(4) Landscapes (Landscape covers the streams, the trees that would grow there, as well as the mountains, lake, ocean, pool)
(5) Inanimate things (There would be endless inanimate things)
1. Mechanical (cars, trains, boasts, planes, television, clocks, pendulum, computer, elevator)
2. Not Mechanical (Jigsaw puzzle, rag doll, furniture, glass)
3. Communication/ information modalities (Blackboard, switchboard, screen, master, computer, computer room, crystal ball, TV)
(6) Food and drinks.
Animals/ Plants🡆
(1) Animals.
1. Macro animals (Horses, snakes)
2. Micro animals (Krill, bacteria, insects)
(2) Plants.
1. Macro plants (gardens, trees, vegetables, flowers, fruits)
2. Micro plants (Algae,)
Extra information:
➤ There can be any type of combination of the above.
➤ There is no limit to the number of themes that can be combined.
Stay Questioning
Questions, comments or requests? Feel free to reach out, I’d love to hear from you.
