Approche anthropologique de la douleur chronique

The IASP definition describes pain as sensation and emotion. From an anthropological point of view, these two dimensions do not exhaust the whole problem of pain's personal experience. This paper suggests an approach of pain as a perception, to highlight the meaning registers in chronic pain experience, which cannot be reduced to individual meanings. So, it underlines the stake in the treatment of pain not only to focus on its relief but also to work on these representations, and thus on relations between the person and its pain.