Abstracts
Abstract
Pain is inherently subjective and culturally mitigated and so it is difficult to measure and mitigate. Art creation has the ability to be therapeutic to persons in chronic pain.
Keywords:
- chronic pain,
- suffering,
- disability,
- art therapy,
- medicine
Résumé
La douleur est intrinsèquement subjective et modulée par la culture, il est donc difficile de la mesurer et de la soulager. La création artistique possède la capacité d’être thérapeutique aux personnes atteintes de douleur chronique.
Mots-clés :
- douleur chronique,
- souffrance,
- incapacité,
- thérapie artistique,
- médecine
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