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Jun 2007
ISBN 0262072831
168 pp.
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Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, 2nd Edition
Nikola Grahek

In Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, Nikola Grahek examines two of the most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in human pain experience: pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain. Grahek shows that these two syndromes-the complete dissociation of the sensory dimension of pain from its affective, cognitive, and behavioral components, and its opposite, the dissociation of pain's affective components from its sensory-discriminative components (inconceivable to most of us but documented by ample clinical evidence)-have much to teach us about the true nature and structure of human pain experience.

Table of Contents
 Contents
 Acknowledgements
 Foreward
1 Introduction
2 The Biological Function and Importance of Pain
3 Dissociation Phenomena in Human Pain Experience
4 Pain Asymbolia
5 How Is Pain without Painfulness Possible?
6 Conceptual and Theoretical Implications of Pain Asymbolia
7 Pain Quality and Painfulness without Pain
8 C-Fibers and All That
 References
 Index
 
 


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