Pain: Psychological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780805842999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 390 str.

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos; Kenneth D. Craig

Opis

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the psychology of pain that encompasses not only clinical perspectives but also basic social and behavioural science, as well as biopsychological contributions to the field. The relatively recent focus on pain as a subjective experience encompassing thoughts, feelings and sensation has lead to dramatic improvements in our understanding of the complex psychological processes that represent and control pain. There has also been an enhanced understanding of the ontogenetic, socialization and contextual determinants of pain. Mechanisms responsible for the complex synthesis of sensations, feelings and thoughts underlying pain behaviour have been the target of concerted research and clinical investigation. research on these complex psychological processes. Both clinical (pain assessment and treatment) and basic (eg, consciousness and pain, the neuromatrix model, sociocommunication processes) perspectives are carefully examined by a group of pain researchers and clinicians.

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Contents: Preface. T. Hadjistavropoulos, K.D. Craig, An Introduction to Pain: Psychological Perspectives. R. Melzack, J. Katz, The Gate Control Theory: Reaching for the Brain. G.J.G. Asmundson, K.D. Wright, Biopsychosocial Approaches to Pain. C.R. Chapman, Pain Perception, Affective Mechanisms, and Conscious Experience. T. Hadjistavropoulos, K.D. Craig, S. Fuchs-Lacelle, Social Influences and the Communication of Pain. S.J. Gibson, C.T. Chambers, Pain Over the Life Span: A Developmental Perspective. G.B. Rollman, Ethnocultural Variations in the Experience of Pain. S.M. Skevington, V.L. Mason, Social Influences on Individual Differences in Responding to Pain. D.C. Turk, E.S. Monarch, A.D. Williams, Assessment of Chronic Pain Sufferers. S. Bruehl, O.Y. Chung, Psychological Interventions for Acute Pain. H.D. Hadjistavropoulos, A.C. de C. Williams, Psychological Interventions and Chronic Pain. K.D. Craig, T. Hadjistavropoulos, Psychological Perspectives on Pain: Controversies. T. Hadjistavropoulos, Ethics for Psychologists Who Treat, Assess, and/or Study Pain.

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Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Kenneth D. Craig