Metaphors: Another Explanation in the Expression of Pain in Patients

According to 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]", and another additional source; "Pain Metaphors as a Bridge between Physician and Patient: An Interdisciplinary Approach. [3]" The first article considers common pain metaphors among Persian speakers. In the second article, several common metaphors used by cancer patients are explained in a purely cognitive manner. The third article, interestingly, states that conceptual metaphors can unconsciously play a significant role in the relationship between the patient and therapist. All of these articles and findings are new in some way and have recently entered the Iranian research literature. What emerges from the results of these studies is that although pain has both physiological and psychological aspects, and targets the quality of life of humans [4], it also has another important aspect, which is that pain has a language, and its language is metaphorical, and it can be assessed with tools related to pain metaphors [5].  As a result, publishing these types of articles reminds readers that this scientific journal values articles on pain from various and interdisciplinary perspectives.