MHU 201: Foundations of Medical Humanities and MHU 498: Senior Seminar: MHU 498 Vanessa_ pain AND poetry AND chapbook

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.

In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain--day by day, hour by hour, and second by second--is the real work of healing. With uncommon warmth and wisdom, Zebian empowers all who have lost to let go of anger and transform their suffering into the softness, sweetness, and beauty of nectar. She holds her readers by the hand as they heal.