BIBFRAME Work

Title

Reading literature and chronic pain

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Billington, Josie, 1961- (author)

Subject

• Chronic pain--Treatment (LCSH)
• Group reading--Therapeutic use (LCSH)
• Bibliotherapy (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 616/.0472 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: RB127.5.C48 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve. Based on unique empirical research with people who are living with chronic pain, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the value of literature and literary reading both as a discourse for understanding pain and as an intervention in its treatment"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Chronic pain : the clinical picture -- Pain and meaning -- Pain : body and mind -- Pain and language -- Why reading? : Starting-points and key concepts -- Memory, time and loss : encountering the past -- Changing the story -- Finding a language -- Shared reading and intersubjectivity : the group -- Pain and stuckness.

Authorized Access Point

Billington, Josie, 1961-. Reading literature and chronic pain

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