Overview
"In New Possibilities: Unraveling the Mystery and Mastering Chronic Pain, psychologist and chronic pain expert Alan Stephen Weisser, PhD helps readers understand the extensive impact chronic pain has on their whole lives and whole selves. Giving some brief background about his own formative experience, dealing with a broken neck at age twelve, he explains why this full understanding of the entire impact of chronicity is the first critical step toward meaningful recovery. The book includes numerous patient vignettes to highlight a point or new approach, and short ""takeaway"" summaries to frame the content ahead, and, in the appendix, eleven self-assessment forms to help readers begin to see the physical, psychological, emotional, and personal impacts of chronic pain, and to better understand additional impacts of the treatment experience. Readers will hear, for perhaps the first time, how valuable their anxiety and anger is; discover that they have an ""existential immune system"" that is protective of their whole self, not just their physical self; and learn how to engage and support it to improve their day-to-day experience and their effectiveness in dealing with the limitations of the health care system. Finally, Dr. Weisser shares the comprehensive stories of several composite patients, desperate from years of living with pain who, through understanding the existential immune system, were able to take seemingly unsurmountable circumstances and transform their lives toward meaningful relief and a regained sense of self and purpose."
Full Product Details
Author: Alan S Weisser
Publisher: New Options, Inc.
Imprint: New Options, Inc.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.517kg
ISBN: 9781737859802
ISBN 10: 1737859807
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 18 October 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
ALAN STEPHEN WEISSER, PhD has worked extensively with complex and chronic pain problems, and was led to develop his comprehensive and compassionate approach by way of his own and others' pain journeys. Dr. Weisser offers online courses at New Options (newoptionsinc.com), and has presented his understanding and methodologies for mastering chronic pain to physicians at the University of Washington; Labor & Industries, Washington State; the National Association of Spine Specialists; the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers Association; and for numerous private rehabilitation and medical practices.
