Pain : psychological perspectives /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The gate control theory : reaching for the brain
- Biopsychosocial approaches to pain
- Pain perception, affective mechanisms, and conscious experience
- Social influences and the communication of pain
- Pain over the life span : a developmental perspective
- Ethnocultural variations in the experience of pain
- Social influences on individual differences in responding to pain
- Assessment of chronic pain sufferers
- Psychological interventions for acute pain
- Psychological interventions and chronic pain
- Psychological perspectives on pain : controversies
- Ethics for psychologists who treat, assess, and/or study pain.