The Painful Truth

byMonty Lyman, Monty Lyman (Read by)

The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal

What causes the placebo effect? What is phantom limb pain? Why do we experience pain, even after we've healed?

We're currently experiencing a Renaissance in pain science. In recent years our understanding of pain has altered so radically it's fair to say that everything we thought we knew about pain is wrong. As Dr Monty Lyman reveals, we misunderstand pain - with harmful consequences. Exploring cutting-edge research and encompassing phantom aches to persistent pain, and interviews with survivors of torture as well as those who have never felt pain, Dr Lyman not only provides hope for reducing and managing pain but takes us to a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

This is the untold story of pain - our most elusive feeling.

Monty Lyman is a superb storyteller... I loved this book so much.

Rachel Clarke, bestselling author of DEAR LIFE

About Monty Lyman

Dr Monty Lyman is a medical doctor, researcher and author who specializes in the relationship between the mind and the immune system. He is an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Oxford. His first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, was one of the Sunday Times Best Books of 2019 and was a Radio 4 Book of the Week. An essay from his second book, The Painful Truth, won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine’s Pain Medicine Prize.
Details
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473597174
  • Length: 485 minutes
  • Price: £13.00
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