Innovative approaches to chronic pain : understanding the experience of pain and suffering and the role of healing / edited by Peter Wemyss-Gorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wemyss-Gorman, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chronic pain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the British Pain Society's Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group. Exploring psychological, spiritual and creative approaches, contributors reflect on therapeutic avenues ranging from the deliberate use of the placebo response and the importance of a caring relationship between patient and practitioner, to the use of knitting as a therapeutic tool. Barriers to the flow of healing such as practitioners' careless use of language and cultural attitudes are identified and contrasted with the need to understand the first-person perspectives of people who are suffering. This book will provide hope and inspiration both to people who have become disillusioned with conventional medical approaches to the relief of their pain, and to health professionals sadly aware of the frequent inadequacy of their efforts to help them.

Contents:

Intro

Innovative Approaches to Chronic Pain

Cover

Of related interest

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Peter Wemyss-Gorman

1. Pain and Placebo: Suffering, Caring and Healing

Paul Dieppe

2. Healing from Within: The Use of Hypnotic Techniques in Chronic Pain Management

Ann Williamson

3. Suffering as a Guiding Call to Change: Life-Compassion and Bridging the Living Gap

David Reilly

4. 'Guerir quelquefois, Soulager souvent, Consoler toujours': The Relief of Pain and Suffering Is the Core Goal of Medicine; Raanan Gillon

5. Pain, Breathlessness and Disability: A Phenomenological Analysis of Respiratory Illness

Havi Carel

6. 'This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You': The Problem of Pain

Tom Shakespeare

7. Pain Signals and Other Bad Language

Betsan Corkhill

8. Healing the Pain of a Wounded Soul

Jeremy Swayne

9. Suffering and the World's Religions: The Search for Meaning in Pain

10. Ethnic and Cultural Effects on Pain Assessment and Management

Jonathan Koffman

11. Pain Management

An Alternative Global Perspective?

Clare Roques; 12. Why the Opioid Epidemic in the United States?

John D. Loeser

13. Therapeutic Knitting to Facilitate Change

14. The Real Experience of Pain: First-Hand Accounts

Bryan Vernon

Endnotes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78775-188-0