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Welcome to the blog.
Here is where you can find all of our writings about things we've read. This blog is regularly contributed to by members of the Pain Geeks Community. If you have any ideas or pieces that you'd like to share with the community, just reach out. We'd love to hear from you!


“The Left Hand of Darkness” is full of dualistic concepts surrounding the central concept of ambisexual beings.
By Corina Breukel Sitting people-watching on the beach in Portugal, it struck me that biological sex expresses itself physically at its...

paingeekscommunity
Sep 20, 20232 min read


The Left Hand of Darkness
By Corina Breukel Hello everyone, I have felt honoured and pleased to choose a book for the PainGeeks bookgroup. As I have a very strong...

paingeekscommunity
Sep 10, 20232 min read


Living well with chronic pain: A classical grounded theory
Lennox Thompson, B., Gage, J. and Kirk, R., 2020. Living well with chronic pain: a classical grounded theory. Disability and...

Laura Rathbone
Aug 14, 20234 min read


Life is Hard: Failure
By Dr Julian Kiverstein, Philosopher, University of Amsterdam Chapter 4 is a reflection upon the pain of failure. All of us will...

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Jul 1, 20234 min read


Life is Hard: Grief
By Dr Julian Kiverstein, Philosopher, University of Amsterdam Grief is a painful emotion all of us will experience at some point in our...

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Jun 18, 20234 min read


Life is Hard: Loneliness
By Dr Julian Kiverstein, Philosopher, University of Amsterdam Chapter 2 takes up the question of why loneliness is painful and what the...

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Jun 13, 20234 min read


Kieran Setiya on Infirmity
By Dr Julian Kiverstein, Philosopher, University of Amsterdam Philosophers have tended to theorise the good life and not the bad. They...

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Jun 4, 20236 min read


Philosophy - the love of wisdom
An introduction to the second book of 2023 on Pain Geeks: Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya By Laura Rathbone Philo - love Sophia - wisdom In...

Laura Rathbone
May 30, 20233 min read


The Alternative Limb Project: Pain & Perception Humanities Piece May 2023
“Having an alternative limb is about claiming control and saying ‘I’m an individual and this reflects who I am'.” — Sophie de Oliveira...
Christine Petrides
May 8, 20234 min read


Pain, movement and adaptation - the good, the bad and the inconclusive.
By Laura Rathbone Reflection on Reading 1 for April 2023: Hodges, P.W. and Smeets, R.J., 2015. Interaction between pain, movement, and...

Laura Rathbone
Apr 16, 20233 min read


Hi Ren
It was never a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance, and like a dance, the more rigid I became the harder it got The more I...

Laura Rathbone
Apr 9, 20236 min read


Dopamine and the molecule of novelty?
I'm just about coming to the end of this quarter's book "The Molecule of More" by Lieberman and Long, chosen by Tim Beames, and...

Laura Rathbone
Mar 22, 20234 min read


Have I had my dopamine hit?
Reference: The Molecule of More: How a single chemical in your brain drives love, sex, and creativity – and will determine the fate of...

paingeekscommunity
Mar 19, 20231 min read


Allostatic Load
Joletta Belton describes Allotstatic Load and relates her lived experience of pain to the model.

paingeekscommunity
Feb 23, 20239 min read


The Molecule of More by Daniel Z Lieberman
Book Chosen by Tim Beames Reference: The Molecule of More: How a single chemical in your brain drives love, sex, and creativity – and...

paingeekscommunity
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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