THE RASHOMON APPROACH TO DEALING WITH CHRONIC PAIN

This paper discusses a kind of interview whose narrative structure has the interviewee-narrator assuming different personas during its cours e. In these kinds of interviews the narrator not only reflects on expe rience, but uses the interview situation to actively configure future experience, in this case to change a frustrating, overwhelming experie nce of mysterious, intractable pain into something more meaningful. Th e paper links narrative to experience by examining certain dialogic pr ocesses in narratives that engage in, as well as reflect on, practice, in this case, a kind of self-therapy.