Pain: from suffering to feeling better

Description

Pain is a guide to understanding and treating all kinds of pain, and helping sufferers maintain hope for a normal life. In accessible chapters, this book explains how pain occurs at a fundamental level, both psychologically and physically, and what makes ordinary pain debilitating. With a focus on the daily realities of suffering and recovery, Pain aims to inform readers about the therapeutic and psychological approaches to pain management. In addition, it offers concrete tools and strategies to help sufferers become experts on their own pain and guide their own treatment.;Chapter 1: The pain of the problem -- Chapter 2: Pain under the magnifying glass -- Chapter 3: Lives turned upside down -- Chapter 4: When emotions enter the picture -- Chapter 5: The therapeutic challenge: about medical treatments -- Chapter 6: Pain self-management. Chapter 1: The pain of the problem -- Chapter 2: Pain under the magnifying glass -- Chapter 3: Lives turned upside down -- Chapter 4: When emotions enter the picture -- Chapter 5: The therapeutic challenge: about medical treatments -- Chapter 6: Pain self-management.