The myth of pain
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
1999
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| Series: | Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 298 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780585173801 058517380X |