Encountering Pain : : Hearing, seeing, speaking / / Deborah Padfield, Joanna M. Zakrzewska.

What is persistent pain? How do we communicate pain, not only in words but in visual images and gesture? How do we respond to the pain of another, and can we do it better? Can explaining how pain works help us handle it? This unique compilation of voices addresses these and bigger questions.Defined...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 409 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I, Hearing. How to listen for the talk of pain ; Testimonies from those living with Pain ; Approaches to Images: an art therapist's perspective on photographic images of pain used to communicate the experience of pain in medical consultations ; Pleurisy I to V ; From boardroom to consulting room to jobcentre plus: the bureaucracies of pain ; Living with TN: interview from pain under the microscope ; Karuna Section II, Seeing. The photograph as a mediating space in clinical and creative encounters ; How Images change nonverbal interaction in chronic pain consultations ; Picturing pain ; Making charcoal for drawing ; The art of pain and inter-subjectivity in Frida Kahlo's self-portraits ; The thing about pain: the remaking of illness narratives on social media ; Exhibiting pain: the role of online exhibitions in sharing creative expressions of chronic physical pain Section III, Speaking. 'Me' AND 'My Pain': Neuralgia and a history of the language of suffering ; Language and images in pain consultations ; The tree, spring and well ; Challenges in managing pain in India ; Disabled lives with an undercurrent of pain ; Acute pain is sexy and chronic pain is not: language, communication and transformation ; Intellectual empathy as conflict resolution in the interdisciplinary team Section IV, The future. Visual images: implications for clinical practice ; What is the pain experience and how can we control it? ; Reflecting on encountering pain Afterword, Communicating chronic pain.