A review of the book: "The Pain-Free Mindset: 7 Steps to Taking Control and Overcoming Chronic Pain" by Dr Deepak Ravindran

Abstract

There has been criticism that the book omits pain as a social justice issue - social exclusion by poverty, gender, race, trauma, disability. That peoples choices for some of the tools noted are constrained by their circumstances. This is true, but could be overcome by a skilled clinician assisting with culturally / context appropriate adaption of the concepts, strategies and steps to make them more socially or economically relevant to the persons life and context.