Pain: Psychological Perspectives

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Kenneth D. Craig9780805842999, 0-8058-4299-3

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the psychology of pain including both applied and basic topics.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Contributors……Page 10
Preface……Page 12
An Introduction to Pain: Psychological Perspectives……Page 14
1 The Gate Control Theory: Reaching for the Brain……Page 26
2 Biopsychosocial Approaches to Pain……Page 48
3 Pain Perception, Affective Mechanisms,and Conscious Experience……Page 72
4 Social Influences and the Communication of Pain……Page 100
5 Pain Over the Life Span: A Developmental Perspective……Page 126
6 Ethnocultural Variations in the Experience of Pain……Page 168
7 Social Influences on Individual Differences in Responding to Pain……Page 192
8 Assessment of Chronic Pain Sufferers……Page 222
9 Psychological Interventions for Acute Pain……Page 258
10 Psychological Interventions and Chronic Pain……Page 284
11 Psychological Perspectives on Pain: Controversies……Page 316
12 Ethics for Psychologists Who Treat, Assess,and/or Study Pain……Page 340
Author Index……Page 358
Subject Index……Page 384