Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) is characterized by multiple struggles, including shyness, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to interpersonal judgments. Research indicates that people with AvPD also show disturbances in narrative identity, which is an internal and evolving story created about the personal past, present, and presumed future. Here, the novel Guide for Narrative Repair (GNaR) recently developed by (Thomsen et al., 2020) is introduced as a potentially useful tool to help people with AvPD in crafting more adaptive narrative identities. The guide is brought to life via a case study analysis of Adam, a male outpatient suffering from AvPD. Consistent with the GNaR, disturbances in Adam's storied self are brought to light and ways to facilitate his narrative repair are proposed. We conclude with implications related to the case as well as the potential narrative turn in AvPD treatment.

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在回避型人格障碍的治疗中加入叙事修复：一个例子

回避型人格障碍 (AvPD) 的特点是多重斗争，包括害羞、自卑感和对人际判断的过度敏感。研究表明，患有 AvPD 的人也表现出叙事身份的紊乱，这是一个关于个人过去、现在和假定未来的内部和不断发展的故事。在这里，小说《叙事修复指南》(Thomsen et al., 2020) 最近开发的 (GNaR) 作为一种潜在有用的工具被引入，以帮助患有 AvPD 的人制作更具适应性的叙事身份。该指南通过对患有 AvPD 的男性门诊患者 Adam 的案例研究分析而栩栩如生。与 GNaR 一致，亚当的故事自我中的干扰被揭露，并提出了促进他的叙事修复的方法。我们总结了与案例相关的影响以及 AvPD 治疗的潜在叙事转变。