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Patients' and professionals' understandings of the causes of chronic pain: Blame, responsibility and identity protection
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A social constructionist analysis of how sense is made of the causes of chronic pain is reported, arguing that when pain is no longer useful as a symptom, identity is challenged, weakened and at risk for both chronic pain patients and pain professionals.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1997-09-01. It has received 244 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chronic pain & Blame.read more
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Pain demands attention: a cognitive-affective model of the interruptive function of pain.
TL;DR: A model of the interruptive function of pain is developed that holds that pain is selected for action from within complex affective and motivational environments to urge escape.
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Fear-avoidance model of chronic pain: the next generation.
Geert Crombez,Christopher Eccleston,Stefaan Van Damme,Johan W.S. Vlaeyen,Johan W.S. Vlaeyen,Paul Karoly +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the next generation of the FA model needs to more explicitly adopt a motivational perspective, one that is built around the organizing powers of goals and self-regulatory processes.
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It is hard work behaving as a credible patient: encounters between women with chronic pain and their doctors
TL;DR: The nature of "work" done by the patients in order to be believed, understood, and taken seriously when consulting the doctor is explored to highlight the relationship between dignity and shame, power and disempowerment for women patients' with medically unexplained disorders.
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Facial expression of pain: an evolutionary account.
TL;DR: It is proposed that human expression of pain in the presence or absence of caregivers, and the detection of pain by observers, arises from evolved propensities.
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Pain as an assault on the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the psychological impact of chronic benign low back pain
Jonathan A. Smith,Mike Osborn +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an in-depth, idiographic study illustrating how chronic benign low back pain may have a serious debilitating impact on the sufferer's sense of self.
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The body in pain
TL;DR: Elaine Scarry analyses the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of warfare and torture, and she demonstrates how political regimes use the power of physical pain to attack and break down the sufferer's sense of self.
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
TL;DR: Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor.
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The Birth of the Clinic
TL;DR: This book discusses spaces and classes, a political Consciousness, the free field, and the Old Age of the Clinic, which explored the role of hospitals in the development of a political consciousness.
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Behavioral methods for chronic pain and illness
TL;DR: The volume is an unusually helpful guide to further exploration as much as it is a map of terra cognita for anyone and everyone concerned with psychosomatic phenomena.