Overview

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.

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Author:   Peter Wemyss-Gorman ,  Paul Dieppe ,  Ann Williamson ,  David Reilly
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781787751873

ISBN 10:   1787751872
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Towards Transformative Change David Reilly 4. Guerir quelquefois, Soulager souvent, Consoler toujours Raanan Gillon 5. Pain, breathlessness and disability: a phenomenological analysis 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 Peter Wemyss-Gorman 10. Ethnic and Cultural Effects on Pain Assessment and Management Jonathan Koffman 12. Why the opioid epidemic? John Loeser 13 . Therapeutic Knitting to Facilitate Change Betsan Corkhill 14. The real experience of pain - first-hand accounts Bryan Vernon

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This valuable book addresses two key dilemmas. First, chronic pain is always more than a signal of tissue damage, which is why standard biomedical approaches fail. Second, multidisciplinary treatments (focused on a narrow band of the cognitive-behavioural spectrum) are not multidisciplinary enough. A holistic approach, by contrast, opens our understanding and treatments to the physical, mental, emotional, and social lived experience of chronic pain. It holds important resources for physicians, therapists, patients, family members, and anyone seeking a better way. -- David B. Morris, author of The Culture of Pain, Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age and Eros and Illness. He has lectured and written on pain for a variety of professional audiences and retired from the University of Virginia as University Professor

Author Information

Peter Wemyss-Gorman has over 25 years' experience of treating pain, and trying to help patients to live well with pain he had all too often failed to relieve. He established the Pain Clinic and Pain Management Programme at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, and was the co-founder of the BPS Philosophy and Ethics SIG in 2001.

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