Meanings of Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: van Rysewyk, Simon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Phenomenology.; Pain medicine.; Clinical psychology.; Biomedicine.; Pain Medicine.; Clinical Psychology.

Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors explain why meaning is important in the...

Table of Contents:

• A call for study on the meanings of pain
• Pain and the dangers of objectivity
• Neural plasticity and the malleability of pain
• The emotional perception of phantom limb pain
• Is pain unreal
• The contribution of new technological breakthroughs to the neuroscientific research of pain communication
• A scientific and philosophical analysis of meanings of pain in studies of pain and suffering
• An interpretative phenomenological analysis of non-malignant chronic low back pain
• Phenomenology of chronic pain: De-personalization and re-personalization.