Pain
A Psychophysiological Analysis
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1968
- Author: Richard A. Sternbach
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 7 2 6 - 9
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 0 5 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 7 2 9 - 5
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… Read more

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Request a sales quotePain: 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.
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter I Introduction and Definitions Pain as Experience Linguistic Parallelism Pain as Response Pain as Stimulus A Definition of PainChapter II Problems of Experimental Pain Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Conditions Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Responses Anxiety as an Experimental Variable Implications for Experimental PainChapter 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 ConclusionsChapter IV Physiological Responses Activation Adaptation and Rebound Law of Initial Values Stress Pain-Specific Responses Individual Response-Stereotypy ConclusionsChapter V Overt Pain Behavior Perceptual Factors Cognitive Factors Personality Factors Family Factors Ethnic Factors Aggression Summary and ConclusionsChapter VI Affective Descriptions Introductory Remarks Subjective Responses to Pain Interpersonal Aspects of Pain Responses Some Psychodynamics of Pain Responses SummaryChapter 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 ConclusionsChapter VIII Phantom Pain Value Judgments The Phantom Limb Phantom Limb Pain Motivations for Phantom Pain: an Illustration Treatment of the Painful Phantom Summary and ConclusionsChapter IX Hypnotic and Placebo Effects Hypnosis Placebo Phenomena Hypnotic and Placebo Pain ReliefChapter 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" AnalysesReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
- No. of pages: 204
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1968
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9781483227269
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483250519
- eBook ISBN: 9781483277295
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