Pain

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