Pain (eBook)

A Psychophysiological Analysis

Richard A. Sternbach (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
204 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-7729-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Pain: A Psychophysiological Analysis 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 14
Dedication 6
Foreword 8
Preface 10
Acknowledgments 12
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS 20
Pain as Experience 20
Linguistic Parallelism 23
Pain as Response 24
Pain as Stimulus 27
A Definition of Pain 30
CHAPTER II. PROBLEMS OF EXPERIMENTAL PAIN 32
Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Conditions 34
Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Responses 37
Anxiety as an Experimental Variable 40
Implications for Experimental Pain 44
CHAPTER Ill. NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY 46
Pain Stimuli 47
Pain Receptors 48
Pain Fibers 49
Sensory Nerves 51
Dorsal Roots and Spinal Cord 52
The Thalamus 54
Other Cephalic Structures 57
Current Theories of Pain 58
Conclusions 61
CHAPTER IV. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES 64
Activation 64
Adaptation and Rebound 65
Law of Initial Values 67
Stress 68
Pain-Specific Responses 69
Individual Response-Stereotypy 75
Conclusions 76
CHAPTER V. OVERT PAIN BEHAVIOR 78
Perceptual Factors 79
Cognitive Factors 83
Personality Factors 88
Family Factors 92
Ethnic Factors 93
Aggression 94
Summary and Conclusions 95
CHAPTER VI. AFFECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS 98
Introductory Remarks 98
Subjective Responses to Pain 100
Interpersonal Aspects of Pain Responses 106
Some Psychodynamics of Pain Responses 109
Summary 111
CHAPTER VII. INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN 114
Establishing Criteria 115
Survey of Cases 119
Best Documented Case 121
Survival Without Pain 123
An Opposing View 124
Personality Development Without Pain 126
A Differing Viewpoint 129
Possible Neural Defects 130
Conclusions 134
CHAPTER VIII. PHANTOM PAIN 136
Value Judgments 136
The Phantom Limb 137
Phantom Limb Pain 140
Motivations for Phantom Pain: An Illustration 146
Treatment of the Painful Phantom 149
Summary and Conclusions 150
CHAPTER IX. HYPNOTIC AND PLACEBO EFFECTS 152
Hypnosis 152
Placebo Phenomena 160
Hypnotic and Placebo Pain Relief 164
CHAPTER X. SUMMARY AND COMMON CONCEPTS 166
Clinical Purposes 166
Experimental Purposes 167
Theoretical Purposes 168
Summary of Chapters 169
Common Concepts 173
An Attempt at Integration 178
Some Implications 180
Uses of "Multilingual" Analyses 183
REFERENCES 184
AUTHOR INDEX 196
SUBJECT INDEX 201

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-7729-1 / 1483277291
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-7729-5 / 9781483277295