Meanings of Pain Volume 2: Common Types of Pain and Language /

Experiential evidence shows that pain is associated with common meanings. These include a meaning of threat or danger, which is experienced as immediately distressing or unpleasant; cognitive meanings, which are focused on the long-term consequences of having chronic pain; and existential meanings s...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: van Rysewyk, Simon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Exploring the Meanings of Pain: My Pain Story
  • Chapter 2: After the Tango in the Doorway: An Autoethnography of Living with Persistent Pain
  • Chapter 3: Diagnosing Human Suffering and Pain: Integrating Phenomenology in Science and Medicine
  • Chapter 4: "Pain Takes Over Everything": The Experience of Pain and Strategies for Management
  • Chapter 5: Changing Pain: Making Sense of Rehabilitation in Persistent Spine Pain
  • Chapter 6: "Let Me Be a Meaningful Part in the Outside World": A Caring Perspective on Long-Term Rheumatic Pain and Fear-Avoidance Beliefs in Relation to Body Awareness and Physical Activities
  • Chapter 7: The Importance of Pain Imagery in Women with Endometriosis-Associated Pain, and Wider Implications for Patients with Chronic Pain
  • Chapter 8: Labour Pain
  • Chapter 9: Living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Understanding the Battle
  • Chapter 10: Cancer Pain and Coping
  • Chapter 11: Common Meanings of Living with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain from the Perspective of Patients
  • Chapter 12: Connotations of Pain in a Socio-Psycho-Biological Framework
  • Chapter 13: Is "Chronic Pain" a Meaningful Diagnosis?
  • Chapter 14: The Meaning of Pain Expressions and Pain Communication
  • Chapter 15: On Saying it Hurts: Performativity and Politics of Pain.