Encounters in a World of Pain: An Autoethnography

• Autores: Ann Neville-Jan
• Localización: American Journal of Occupational Therapy, ISSN 0272-9490, Vol. 57, Nº. 1 (January-February), 2003, pág. 88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pain, a major health problem in the United States, is a highly complex and subjective experience that is poorly understood by many medical, psychological, and rehabilitation practitioners. In this paper I use a qualitative research methodology, autoethnography, to present a personal narrative about my experience of chronic pain. In this research I am both the research participant and the researcher. I begin with my personal narrative. I then problematize conceptions about chronic pain and discuss them from the point of view of my own narrative and from stories and ethnographies in the literature. Finally I reflect on how occupational therapists can more effectively work with persons with chronic pain