Chronic pain as a narratological distress: A phenomenological study

Chronic Illness

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-200

  Lavie Ajayi, Maya ^a   Almog, Nitsan ^a   Krumer Nevo, Michal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

biographical disruption; Chronic pain; emotional distress; interpretative phenomenological analysis; narratological distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NARRATOLOGICAL DISTRESS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PAIN; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864850633     PISSN: 17423953     EISSN: 17459206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742395312449665     Document Type: Article

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