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narratives. But the pain narrative is rightfully chaotic, and it needs a safe place to be spoken …

Every individual has a story--painful or happy--and the story will only be complete and
meaningful when shared with others willing to listen to it. These are the stories of several …

Abstract In the Wounded Storyteller, Arthur Frank proposed three types of narrative told by
people attempting to reclaim their voice and the body made alien by illness–restitution …

Narratives do things. This performative aspect of narrative includes calling on people for a
response. This article explores the responses we have witnessed to a chaos narrative told to …

Abstract In The Wounded Storyteller, Arthur Frank proposed three types of narrative told by
people attempting to reclaim their voice and the body made alien by illness. In restitution …

Language, narrative and chronic pain To have pain, writes Scarry, is to have certainty, but to
hear of pain in another is to have doubt (Scarry6). Such doubt can 'threaten a pain sufferer's …

Researchers need to stand amidst traumatized people to learn from them to begin to
understand the meaning of their suffering. Distance is lessened and listening intensified as …

Chronic pain is a disruptive experience with far-reaching consequences in the somatic,
psychological, social, and existential realms. Many people suffering from chronic pain are on …

Studies of pain narrative focus not simply on engrossing tales, but on complex and subtle
processes rooted in the neurobiology of self-representation, emotion, and social interaction …

The field of family therapy was born in the cauldron of interdisciplinary study. These origins
provided us with a therapeutic approach for the relief of human suffering that was totally …