Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
Balkan Journal of Philosophy
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the roles narratives play in the diagnostics, treatment, and recovery of chronic pain patients. I show that the successes of this narrative approach to the treatment of chronic pain support the biopsychosocial model of disease. The central example of narrative interventions discussed in the paper is pain neuroscience education. This is an intervention which aims at helping chronic pain patients reconceptualize their pain experiences so as to align them with neuroscientific knowledge of pain. Multiple clinical trials have established the success of these interventions in pain reduction. This shows that neuroscience pain education is in fact an evidence-based approach. I conclude that narrative and evidence-based medicine are compatible.
Repository Citation
Atanasova, N. "Three roles of narratives in the treatment of chronic pain." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13(1), 2021: 77-82.
Original Citation
Atanasova, N. "Three roles of narratives in the treatment of chronic pain." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13(1), 2021: 77-82.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5840/bjp20211319
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
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