How Enactive Philosophy Can Transform the Treatment of Chronic Pain Attending to individual experiences of pain with enactive philosophy could provide an antidote to reductive and fragmented approaches. 928 New work by Sabrina Coninx and Peter Stilwell explores existing conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding acute and chronic pain, offering an enactive and phenomenological alternative to theorizing individual experiences of pain. Whereas dominant approaches to pain have attempted to specify objective criteria such as brain states or functional roles, such approaches have universally failed to capture what is essentially a subjective, personal experience. As the authors observe, pain cannot be considered outside of an individual’s embodied perspective.