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Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering Through Language, Literature and Creative Writing

Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering Through Language, Literature and Creative Writing

de Montalk, Stephanie

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

Medical ReferenceWriting InstructionGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1138611050
ISBN13: 9781138611054
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.38
Language: English

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain.

Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing.

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