The Social Context of the Chronic Pain Sufferer / / Ranjan Roy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Roy, Ranjan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Chronic back pain and migraine headaches plague millions of North Americans. Over the past twenty years these and other forms of chronic benign pain have been recognized as serious afflictions that affect a significant segment of the adult population. Researchers have investigated the various medical and psychological aspects of chronic benign pain; now Ranjan Roy adds a critical new dimension with study of the social forces that determine the lives of these patients and their responses to their condition. The effects of chronic pain on a patient's social system can be devastating. Roy discusses the extent to which the negative consequences can be reduced, even if the pain itself remains impervious to treatment. He considers a range of interventions that can significantly modify the negative effects of chronic pain, and discusses some of these in detail to enable clinicians to implement them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- Part I: Conceptual Issues -- 1. Social and Psychological Issues: An Overview -- Part II: Assessment Issues -- 2. Pain, Loss, and Grief -- 3. Life Events and Pain -- 4. Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Pain in Adulthood -- 5. Interpersonal Issues: The Patient's Family System -- Part III: Methods of Intervention -- 6. Social Strategy Interventions -- 7. Task-Centred Approach -- 8. Dynamic Psychotherapy and Pain -- 9. Crisis Intervention -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX