Feeling Pain and Being in Pain.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (198 pages)
- A Bradford Book Series .
- A Bradford Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - The Biological Function and Importance of Pain -- 3 - Dissociation Phenomena in Human Pain Experience -- 4 - Pain Asymbolia -- 5 - How Is Pain without Painfulness Possible? -- 6 - Conceptual and Theoretical Implications of Pain Asymbolia -- 7 - Pain Quality and Painfulness without Pain -- 8 - C-Fibers and All That -- References -- Index.
An examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience--pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain--and what they reveal about the complex nature of pain and its sensory, cognitive, and behavioral components.