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Item Details
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THE MYTH OF PAIN
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| By: |
Valerie Gray Hardcastle |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£4.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262582104 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262582100 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2001 |
| Series: |
Philosophical Psychopathology |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Description: |
Valerie Gray Hardcastle argues that both professional and laydefinitions of pain are wrongheaded -- with consequences for how painand pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders areunderstood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship. |
| Synopsis: |
Pain, although very common, is little understood. Worse still, according to Valerie Gray Hardcastle, both professional and lay definitions of pain are wrongheaded -- with consequences for how pain and pain patients are treated, how psychological disorders are understood, and how clinicians define the mind/body relationship.Hardcastle offers a biologically based complex theory of pain processing, inhibition, and sensation and then uses this theory to make several arguments: (1) psychogenic pains do not exist; (2) a general lack of knowledge about fundamental brain function prevents us from distinguishing between mental and physical causes, although the distinction remains useful; (3) most pain talk should be eliminated from both the folk and academic communities; and (4) such a biological approach is useful generally for explaining disorders in pain processing. She shows how her analysis of pain can serve as a model for the analysis of other psychological disorders and suggests that her project be taken as a model for the philosophical analysis of disorders in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bradford Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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