Main description:

Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors explain why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt and promote the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to study meanings of pain. For the first time in a book, the study of the meanings of pain is given the attention it deserves.
All pain research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is perceived, how meanings of pain can be described within the fabric of a person's life and neurophysiology, what factors mediate them, how they interact and change over time, and how the relationship between patient, researcher, and clinician might be understood in terms of meaning.
Though meanings of pain are not intensively studied in contemporary pain research or thoroughly described as part of clinical assessment, no pain researcher or clinician can avoid asking questions about how pain is perceived or the types of data and scientific methods relevant in discovering the answers.

Contents:

Tentative Table of Contents

Acknowledgements (Simon Peter van Rysewyk)

Preface (Simon Peter van Rysewyk)

Part One: Foundations in the Study of Human Pain Meanings

Sascha Benjamin Fink, 'Uses of Experiential Pain Data'

Saulius Geniusas, 'Limit Problems in Phenomenology of Pain: Unreal, Unfelt, and Unnoticed Pain'

Stuart WG Derbyshire, 'Why Defining Pain Objectively Through Neuroimaging is Mistaken'

Part Two: Common Human Pain Meanings

Camila Valenzuela Moguillansky, 'An Explication Interview Method Analysis of Fibromyalgia'

Carl L von Baeyer and Simon Peter van Rysewyk, 'Experiential Confirmation of Pain Sensitization and Catastrophizing'

Chantal Berna Renalla, 'Pain Placebo'

Lene Vase Toft, 'Phenomenology and the Placebo Effect'

Drew Carter, 'Philosophy of Secondary Pain Affect: An Anatomy of a Painful Experience'

Finn Nortvedt, 'Phenomenology of Phantom Pain'

Jessie Dezutter, 'Religious Understanding of Chronic Pain'

Melissa Farmer, 'Psychophysics of Vulvodynia'

Sherrill Shelgrove, 'Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and Chronic Pain Experience'

Shin-Ichiro Kumagaya, 'Pain as a Loss of

Collective Predictions: Implications from Tojisha-Kenkyu of Addicts' Part Three: Towards Integrating Experiential and Neuroscientific Methods in the Study of Pain Meanings

Adam Croom, 'Auditory Pain, Pleasure, and Musical Experience'

Grant Gillett, 'Neural Plasticity and the Malleability of Pain Phenomenology'

Laura Mitchell, Mathieu Roy, 'Pain Experience and Music'

Siri Leknes, Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Mo

rten Kringelbach, 'Towards Understanding Hedonics: Neuroscientific Perspectives on Pain and Pleasure'

Michel le van Quyen and Juliana Bagdasaryan, 'Neurofeedback, Hypnosis and Pain Reduction'

Tom Neser, 'Pain Phenomenology and Neurofeedback'

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