Experiences of chronic pain

Authors

  • David Le Breton University of Strasbourg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2531-7288/3165

Keywords:

Chronic pain, Identity, Biographical break, Medicine, Care

Abstract

The longer it lasts, the more pain permeates the existence. The individual becomes the stranger of is own life, is driven out of his person by a negative power that possesses him and that is all the more destructive the more he cannot get away from it. Many patients have to find a compromise so that pain stops being a mutilation. How can they continue to live with their pain?

Author Biography

David Le Breton, University of Strasbourg

Emeritus Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg

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Published

2025-07-29

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