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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.
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