Sternbach Pain

A Psychophysiological Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7729-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Web PDF

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sternbach, Richard A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Pain: A Psychophysiological Analysis;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;14
5;Dedication;6
6;Foreword;8
7;Preface;10
8;Acknowledgments;12
9;CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS;20
9.1;Pain as Experience;20
9.2;Linguistic Parallelism;23
9.3;Pain as Response;24
9.4;Pain as Stimulus;27
9.5;A Definition of Pain;30
10;CHAPTER II. PROBLEMS OF EXPERIMENTAL PAIN;32
10.1;Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Conditions;34
10.2;Clinical vs. Experimental Pain Responses;37
10.3;Anxiety as an Experimental Variable;40
10.4;Implications for Experimental Pain;44
11;CHAPTER Ill. NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY;46
11.1;Pain Stimuli;47
11.2;Pain Receptors;48
11.3;Pain Fibers;49
11.4;Sensory Nerves;51
11.5;Dorsal Roots and Spinal Cord;52
11.6;The Thalamus;54
11.7;Other Cephalic Structures;57
11.8;Current Theories of Pain;58
11.9;Conclusions;61
12;CHAPTER IV. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES;64
12.1;Activation;64
12.2;Adaptation and Rebound;65
12.3;Law of Initial Values;67
12.4;Stress;68
12.5;Pain-Specific Responses;69
12.6;Individual Response-Stereotypy;75
12.7;Conclusions;76
13;CHAPTER V. OVERT PAIN BEHAVIOR;78
13.1;Perceptual Factors;79
13.2;Cognitive Factors;83
13.3;Personality Factors;88
13.4;Family Factors;92
13.5;Ethnic Factors;93
13.6;Aggression;94
13.7;Summary and Conclusions;95
14;CHAPTER VI. AFFECTIVE DESCRIPTIONS;98
14.1;Introductory Remarks;98
14.2;Subjective Responses to Pain;100
14.3;Interpersonal Aspects of Pain Responses;106
14.4;Some Psychodynamics of Pain Responses;109
14.5;Summary;111
15;CHAPTER VII. INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN;114
15.1;Establishing Criteria;115
15.2;Survey of Cases;119
15.3;Best Documented Case;121
15.4;Survival Without Pain;123
15.5;An Opposing View;124
15.6;Personality Development Without Pain;126
15.7;A Differing Viewpoint;129
15.8;Possible Neural Defects;130
15.9;Conclusions;134
16;CHAPTER VIII. PHANTOM PAIN;136
16.1;Value Judgments;136
16.2;The Phantom Limb;137
16.3;Phantom Limb Pain;140
16.4;Motivations for Phantom Pain: An Illustration;146
16.5;Treatment of the Painful Phantom;149
16.6;Summary and Conclusions;150
17;CHAPTER IX. HYPNOTIC AND PLACEBO EFFECTS;152
17.1;Hypnosis;152
17.2;Placebo Phenomena;160
17.3;Hypnotic and Placebo Pain Relief;164
18;CHAPTER X. SUMMARY AND COMMON CONCEPTS;166
18.1;Clinical Purposes;166
18.2;Experimental Purposes;167
18.3;Theoretical Purposes;168
18.4;Summary of Chapters;169
18.5;Common Concepts;173
18.6;An Attempt at Integration;178
18.7;Some Implications;180
18.8;Uses of "Multilingual" Analyses;183
19;REFERENCES;184
20;AUTHOR INDEX;196
21;SUBJECT INDEX;201