Abstract

PUJAL I LLOMBART, Margot  and  MORA, Enrico. Pain, work and gender psychosocial diagnosis: an example. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.4, pp.1183-1195. ISSN 1657-9267.

The aim of this paper is to describe and understand the phenomena of chronic pain without organic cause (better known as fibromyalgia) from a feminist and critical perspective through made of a tool by which to diagnose this pain as bio-psycho-social dimensions: gender psycho-social diagnosis. This tool, presented here, taking into account the labour dimension (both professional and family) of the affected people in the cultural context Catalan (Spanish State) of the last 5 decades, ambivalent in terms of gender equality. The production data we use in this paper it's obtained through in-depth interviews (conducted in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain) and analyzed by content analysis and critical discourse analysis.

Keywords : Gender; chronic pain; fibromyalgia; sexual division of labour; gender psychosocial diagnosis; Gender; pain; fibromyalgia; psychosocial impact.

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