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The Importance of Experience in Pain Management
Ian: You have to use experiences because pain is a pretty difficult thing to try and understand. Elaine Scari wants to say that pain sits outside of language. It's untransmittable. And we ask patients to bring in some food and bring in some stuff to smell. We get them to sort of draw different things that they might have represented you with their smell of a taste. I had one man who drew his pain and enabled a three hour conversation with his wife about how he felt isolated and depressed.