Section I, Hearing. How to listen for the talk of pain ; Testimonies from those living with Pain ; Approaches to Images: an art therapist's perspective on photographic images of pain used to communicate the experience of pain in medical consultations ; Pleurisy I to V ; From boardroom to consulting room to jobcentre plus: the bureaucracies of pain ; Living with TN: interview from pain under the microscope ; Karuna
Section II, Seeing. The photograph as a mediating space in clinical and creative encounters ; How Images change nonverbal interaction in chronic pain consultations ; Picturing pain ; Making charcoal for drawing ; The art of pain and inter-subjectivity in Frida Kahlo's self-portraits ; The thing about pain: the remaking of illness narratives on social media ; Exhibiting pain: the role of online exhibitions in sharing creative expressions of chronic physical pain
Section III, Speaking. 'Me' AND 'My Pain': Neuralgia and a history of the language of suffering ; Language and images in pain consultations ; The tree, spring and well ; Challenges in managing pain in India ; Disabled lives with an undercurrent of pain ; Acute pain is sexy and chronic pain is not: language, communication and transformation ; Intellectual empathy as conflict resolution in the interdisciplinary team
Section IV, The future. Visual images: implications for clinical practice ; What is the pain experience and how can we control it? ; Reflecting on encountering pain
Afterword, Communicating chronic pain.