Healing Pain: The Innovative, Breakthrough Plan to Overcome Your Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering

By C.B. deSwann and Ann M. Berger

Dr. Ann Berger shows readers how to control their chronic pain through the pioneering and hugely successful approach that has made her one of the top pain specialists in America An estimated 70... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594860122
• ISBN13: 9781594860126
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Yes, Chronic pain is real and hurts you in many ways, how to cope.

There comes a time in many people's lives where chronic pain happens for many reasons. It is depressing.You have pain, a lot. No one wants to listen to you talk about it. It also does something sad to your ego, feelings about yourself and it changes your life without asking your permission. It takes away the life you knew and your freedom. Usually , these changes go along with aging and loss and are difficult and lonely feelings, along with the pain. When people are tired of listening to you complain, get this book. Your complications from the chronic pain are very real, yet no one wants to discuss this with you. They are real. You must accept yourself where you are, do what you can to help yourself and be assertive, yet accept you may be a bit different than you were when well. You will win in the end. This book will help you.Help with the side effects of chronic pain

Healing Pain

Despite the title, Healing Pain does not focus on relieving physical pain. This book looks beyond the physical aspects of pain into the often hidden aspects of emotional suffering associated with chronic pain. The author, a pain management specialist, reflects that chronic pain, be it from cancer, fibromyalgia, or an acute injury that never fully healed, have some very specific things in common. The most significant of these aspects is the overall emotional toll that it takes on the individual and his or her family. The nature of chronic pain, depression, guilt, and concerns over potential addictions to pain medicines are just a few of the very important topics discussed in this book. Exercises, topics for journaling, and step by step programs to alleviate emotional pain are also dispersed throughout this important groundbreaking text.

Powerful , helpful and a gripping read.

"Healing Pain" delivers. I'm ordering copies for a family member who has MS; an attorney friend specializing in elder law, many of whose clients deal with chronic pain; and a friend studying for the Episcopal priesthood who has already served as a hospital chaplain, meeting many patients coping with pain. These friends don't have time or energy for reading books that come up empty. This one looked promising, based on the author's credentials as an oncologist specializing in pain management. It turns out that she's had cancer herself. On many levels, and in the most personal way, she knows what she's talking about. There are real answers here.