'Barbed wire wrapped around my feet': Metaphor use in chronic pain.

CONCLUSIONS: Participants utilized a wide variety of metaphors to describe their pain. The most common descriptions couched chronic pain in terms of physical damage. A better understanding of pain metaphors may have implications for improved health care communication and provide targets for clinical interventions. PMID: 32452109 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32452109?dopt=Abstract

Source: British Journal of Health Psychology - May 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Munday I, Newton-John T, Kneebone I Tags: Br J Health Psychol Source Type: research