Pain Metaphors as a Bridge between Physician and Patient: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Author
F. Raiisi
Cognitive science of language de- partment, Cognitive Science. Institute of Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/ijmpp.8.2.862
Abstract
Two articles published in this journal with the titles of "Conceptual Metaphors of Pain in Persian: A Cognitive Analysis. IJMPP 2021, 6(2):496-501.[1]" and "Understanding Cancer Patients' Lived Experience of Pain through Metaphors: A Qualitative Study. IJMPP 2022;7(3):759-764. [2]". In the first article; the author demonstrated the pain metaphors Persian speakers use for their sorts of pain and its mappings. But in the second-one , the author indicated that dedicated pain mapping that cancer patients are involved with them cognitively and live with them. According to this, they investigated pain metaphors that play an important role between physician and patient. Although these types of metaphors guide diagnosis and treatment, but. in some cases, incorrect pain metaphors distort the diagnosis and the treatment will not be effective. Therefore, more research and investigation are needed in this new interdisciplinary field of study.

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Raiisi F. Conceptual Metaphors of Pain in Persian: A Cognitive Analysis. IJMPP, 2021, 6(2):496-501. [DOI:10.52547/ijmpp.6.2.496]
Raiisi F, Riyassi M. Understanding Cancer Patients' Lived Experience of Pain through Metaphors: A Qualitative Study. IJMPP. 2022; 7(3):759-764. [DOI:10.52547/ijmpp.7.3.759]
Raiisi F. The Relationships Between Pain Perception and Quality of Life in Addicts. IJMPP, 2020;5(2):350-356.. [DOI:10.52547/ijmpp.5.2.350]
Raiisi F. Cognitive Analysis of Quality of Life Metaphors from the Perspective of Health Promotion Students. Health Educ Health Promot, 2022; 10(2):233-238.
Raiisi F, Moghadasin M. Designing, Making and Evaluating Psychometric Characteristics of the Time Perception Pattern as Metaphorical Questionnaire Based on Cognitive- Dataset Analysis in Persians. JCP, 2020; 8(2): 70-87.
International Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain Prevention
Volume 8, Issue 2
May 2023
Pages 862-863