Abby Tabor
Lifeworlds in pain: A principled method for investigation and intervention
Tabor, Abby; Constant, Axel
Authors
Axel Constant
Abstract
The experience of pain spans biological, psychological and sociocultural realms, both basic and complex, it is by turns necessary and devastating. Despite an extensive knowledge of the constituents of pain, the ability to translate this into effective intervention remains limited. It is suggested that current, multiscale, medical approaches, largely informed by the biopsychosocial (BPS) model, attempt to integrate knowledge but are undermined by an epistemological obligation, one that necessitates a prior isolation of the constituent parts. To overcome this impasse, we propose that an anthropological stance needs to be taken, underpinned by a Bayesian apparatus situated in computational psychiatry. Here, pain is presented within the context of lifeworlds, where attention is shifted away from the constituents of experience (e.g. nociception, reward processing and fear-avoidance), towards the dynamic affiliation that occurs between these processes over time. We argue that one can derive a principled method of investigation and intervention for pain from modelling approaches in computational psychiatry. We suggest that these modelling methods provide the necessary apparatus to navigate multiscale ontology and epistemology of pain. Finally, a unified approach to the experience of pain is presented, where the relational, inter-subjective phenomenology of pain is brought into contact with a principled method of translation; in so doing, revealing the conditions and possibilities of lifeworlds in pain.
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Tabor, A., & Constant, A. (2023). Lifeworlds in pain: A principled method for investigation and intervention. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023(1), Article niad021. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad021
Journal Article Type | Review |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 23, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 13, 2023 |
Publication Date | Sep 13, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Sep 20, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 22, 2023 |
Journal | Neuroscience of Consciousness |
Electronic ISSN | 2057-2107 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2023 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | niad021 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad021 |
Keywords | Psychiatry and Mental health; Neurology (clinical); Neurology; Clinical Psychology; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11129284 |
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