
Pain
A Psychophysiological Analysis
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Pain: A Psychophysiological Analysis focuses on the processes, mechanisms, and approaches in studying pain. The book first offers information on the problems of experimental pain and neurological activity. Topics include anxiety as an experimental variable, implications for experimental pain, pain stimuli, receptors, and fibers, dorsal roots and spinal cord, and sensory nerves. The text also ponders on physiological responses and overt pain behavior. Discussions focus on perceptual, cognitive, personality, family, and ethnic factors, aggression, adaptation and rebound, stress, and pain-specific responses. The publication takes a look at affective descriptions and insensitivity to pain. Concerns include interpersonal aspects of pain, subjective responses to pain, psychodynamics of pain responses, personality development without pain, and possible neural defects. Phantom pain and hypnotic and placebo effects are also elaborated. The manuscript is a vital source of data for psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, and physiologists.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I Introduction and Definitions
Pain as Experience
Linguistic Parallelism
Pain as Response
Pain as Stimulus
A Definition of Pain
Chapter II Problems of Experimental Pain
Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Conditions
Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Responses
Anxiety as an Experimental Variable
Implications for Experimental Pain
Chapter III Neurological Activity
Pain Stimuli
Pain Receptors
Pain Fibers
Sensory Nerves
Dorsal Roots and Spinal Cord
The Thalamus
Other Cephalic Structures
Current Theories of Pain
Conclusions
Chapter IV Physiological Responses
Activation
Adaptation and Rebound
Law of Initial Values
Stress
Pain-Specific Responses
Individual Response-Stereotypy
Conclusions
Chapter V Overt Pain Behavior
Perceptual Factors
Cognitive Factors
Personality Factors
Family Factors
Ethnic Factors
Aggression
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter VI Affective Descriptions
Introductory Remarks
Subjective Responses to Pain
Interpersonal Aspects of Pain Responses
Some Psychodynamics of Pain Responses
Summary
Chapter VII Insensitivity to Pain
Establishing Criteria
Survey of Cases
Best Documented Case
Survival without Pain
An Opposing View
Personality Development without Pain
A Differing Viewpoint
Possible Neural Defects
Conclusions
Chapter VIII Phantom Pain
Value Judgments
The Phantom Limb
Phantom Limb Pain
Motivations for Phantom Pain: an Illustration
Treatment of the Painful Phantom
Summary and Conclusions
Chapter IX Hypnotic and Placebo Effects
Hypnosis
Placebo Phenomena
Hypnotic and Placebo Pain Relief
Chapter X Summary and Common Concepts
Clinical Purposes
Experimental Purposes
Theoretical Purposes
Summary of Chapters
Common Concepts
An Attempt at Integration
Some Implications
Uses of "Multilingual" Analyses
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 204
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1968
- Published: January 1, 1968
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483277295