Encountering pain : hearing, seeing, speaking

Encountering pain : hearing, seeing, speaking / edited by Deborah Padfield and Joanna M. Zakrzewska - 1 online resource (404 pages) : color illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction I. Encountering pain Introduction II. What is pain? A neurobiological perspective Part I. Hearing 1. How to listen for the talk of pain 2. Three testimonies from those living with pain 3. Approaches to images : an art therapist’s perspective on photographic images of pain used to communicate the experience of pain in medical consultations 4. Pleurisy I–V 6. Living with trigeminal neuralgia : interview from pain under the microscope 7. Karuna (करुणा in devanagari) Part II. Seeing 8. The photograph as a mediating space in clinical and creative encounters 9. How images change non-verbal interaction in chronic pain consultations 10. Picturing pain 11. Making charcoal for drawing 12. The art of pain and intersubjectivity in Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits 13. The thing about pain : the remaking of illness narratives on social media 14. Exhibiting pain : the role of online exhibitions in sharing creative expressions of chronic physical pain Part III. Speaking 15. ‘Me’ and ‘my pain’ : neuralgia and a history of the language of suffering 16. Language and images in pain consultations 17. The tree, spring and well 18. Challenges in managing pain in India 19. Disabled lives with an undercurrent of pain : a Hindu perspective and first-person testimony 20. Acute pain is sexy and chronic pain is not : language, communication and transformation 21. Intellectual empathy as conflict resolution in the interdisciplinary team Part IV. The future 22. Visual images : implications for clinical practice 23. What is the pain experience and how can we control it? Perspectives from neuroscience 24. Reflecting on ‘Encountering Pain’ Afterword. Communicating chronic pain

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Pain--Treatment
Chronic pain--Treatment
Analgesia


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