| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Theory -- Becoming a Worthy Companion: Clarifying and Refining a Philosophy of Care -- Caring and Self-Care -- Creating a Meaningful Life -- Therapy -- Stages of Recrafting a Life -- The First Meeting: Exploring the Landscape: The Solution-Focused Approach -- Solution Building -- Recrafting Consciousness: Clinical Hypnosis for Pain and Chronic Illness -- Suggestive Therapeutics: Hypnotic and Posthypnotic Suggestions to Treat Chronic Pain and Illness -- Caring for the Caregiver -- Experiments in Self-Care |
| Summary |
Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive and mysterious. The National Medical Expenditure Survey estimates that over 80 million U.S. citizens live with a chronic illness. The most prevalent are arthritis, diabetes, respiratory diseases, hypertension and mental illness. This book uses the novel Robinson Crusoe as an archetypal metaphor for the patients who must learn to survive on their own isolated ""island"" of chronic pain. This uniqu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pain -- Treatment.
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Brief psychotherapy.
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Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects.
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Pain -- psychology
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Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods
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Chronic Disease -- psychology
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Psychotherapy, Brief
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pain Management.
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MEDICAL -- Pain Medicine.
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Brief psychotherapy
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Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects
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Pain -- Treatment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Webster, Denise
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| ISBN |
9781135450823 |
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113545082X |
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9780203890264 |
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0203890264 |
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