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A ChrObjective Disease? Understanding and Treatment of Chronic
Diffuse Pains with Fibromyalgia as an Example
The article deals with the disease field chronic diffuse pains, here exemplified by
fibromyalgia, where patients are frequently rendered homeless in an objectivityfocused
medical treatment system, whose specialities (ideally seen) are mutually
exclusive, and where the absence of a diagnosis therefore poses a fundamental
problem. In the treatment field there is, however, also a bio-psycho-social approach,
and these two treatment regimes are respectively termed as a chrObjective
approach and a holistic subject approach.
By empirical examples, from stories by both therapists and patients, the article
describes how the actors navigate between the two treatment regimes, to
which the patients must necessarily adapt in their wish for acceptance and assistance
from both sides. The authors further discuss to which degree the two
treatment regimes are actually incompatible. The interviews and observation of
participants, which constitute the empirical basis for the article, were carried out
among therapists and patients in Denmark in 2010.
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