Abstract
This paper is about doing psychotherapy while suffering from a chronic illness. The purpose is to describe the manner in which ongoing irreversible pain integrates itself into the life of any human being, but specifically that of the therapist. The process of weaving the experience into the life narrative and in turn the therapeutic narrative is explored.
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