A semiotic perspective on chronic pain
Implications for the interaction between patient and physician
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9618535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatrice Priel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Betty Rabinowitz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Richard J Pels (Harvard University) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-71 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Medical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1129 • E-ISSN: 2056-5194 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1991.tb01643.x |
| PMID | 2043506 |
| OpenAlex | W2129997999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
A semiotic conceptualization of pain in the chronic pain syndrome is proposed. It is suggested that among chronic pain patients pain ceases to be an icon or an index and acquires a symbolic structure: this transformation interferes with the usual patient‐physician relationship. The semiotic perspective on the structure of meaning in the chronic pain syndrome underlines the need to include a psychotherapeutic approach in the patient‐physician relationship; specific aspects of the approach to chronic pain as a symbolic communication are discussed
Art · Chronic pain · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Semiotics · Visual arts · Empathy and Medical Education · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Philosophy · Psychology
Transcending the dualisms
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
Iatrogenic Factors and Chronic Pain
The Vicissitudes of Embodiment Across the Chronic Illness Trajectory
Patients' and professionals' understandings of the causes of chronic pain
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Stigma, liminality, and chronic pain
Saved from pain or saved through pain? Modernity, instrumentalization and the religious use of pain as a body technique
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2010 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |