Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking

✍ Scribed by Deborah Padfield, Joanna M. Zakrzewska (editors)

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
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
5. From boardroom to consulting room to jobcentre plus: The bureaucracies of pain
6. Living with trigeminal neuralgia: Interview from Pain Under the Microscope
7. Karuṇā (करुणा in devanāgari)
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
Index