The myth of pain / Valerie Gray Hardcastle.

058517380X (electronic bk.)
9780585173801 (electronic bk.)
9780262082839
0262082837
0262082837 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262582104 (pbk.)
9780262582100
9780262274937
0262274930

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

©1999

English

1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations.

RB127 .H38 1999eb

616/.0472

"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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