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Last updated: Thu, Jul 13, 2017
Pain and social ability.... Mirror neurons and implications of that: Mirroring, understanding, and connecting Being "a pain": the dark side of mirroring Communicating with others about your pain Why is there so little in the pain literature about what pain feels like to the patient? About what it does to the patient? About how to be with a pain patient? Pain and social identify.... Alienation caused by being misunderstood and misjudged. By being suspected. The depth of this in the culture. The political nature of pain control The consequences of being a dependent/supplicant The consequences of being unable The effect of social understandings of pain on the pain sufferer This is very much related to treatment agreements and treatment by the medical community in general.Within this section...
The Importance of Entraining (This page is incomplete.)
The Need for Social Re-engineering (This page is incomplete.)
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