ArticlePloS one2024
'Unmasking Pain' through creativity: A phenomenological study of person-centred pain exploration for people living with chronic pain.
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- Reconfiguring Pain Interpretation Within a Social Model of Health Using a Simplified Version of Wilber's All Quadrant All Levels Framework: An Integral Vision.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring pain and suffering through spatial acousmatic music: innovative perspectives beyond conventional music therapy.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
'Unmasking Pain' is an innovative artist-led project to explore creative approaches for telling stories of life with persistent pain. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and describe the lived experience of taking part in 'Unmasking Pain' from the perspectives of people living with pain (workshop attendees), artists (workshop facilitators) and pain rehabilitation specialists. Informed by descriptive phenomenology, data was collected via semi-structured interviews with three artists (workshop facilitators), five workshop attendees (all living with persistent pain) and one pain rehabilitation specialist. Data was analysed using thematic analysis for descriptive phenomenology. Three themes emerged from the analysis: Theme 1 Space to Breathe, reflects the context of 'Unmasking Pain' such as the conditions, environment and setting that people experienced; Theme 2 Flexibility to Participate, reflects the experience of the process of 'Unmasking Pain' such as the actions or internal workings/behaviours of the experience; and Theme 3 Possibility for Change, reflects the cognitive or emotional experience of 'Unmasking Pain'. There were nine sub-themes: 1(a) Dissolved hierarchy, 1(b) Human connection, and 1(c) Personally meaningful; 2(a) Go with the flow, 2(b) Enjoyable experience, and 2(c) Curiosity to step into the unknown; and 3(a) Reforming pain, 3(b) Liberating in the moment (now), and 3(c) Gives you a boost (future). In conclusion, the uniqueness of 'Unmasking Pain' was to creatively facilitate curiosity and exploration of pain in a non-clinical, sociocultural, humanised context, to enable the possibility of a different pain experience. The findings from this qualitative study exploring the lived experience of taking part in 'Unmasking Pain' demonstrates the power and opportunity of the Arts sector and artist-led activities to support people with chronic pain to have a better pain experience.
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