The myth of pain / Valerie Gray Hardcastle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardcastle, Valerie Gray.

Series:

Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain.

Pain--Psychological aspects.

Pain--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27493-0

0-585-17380-X

OCLC:

44964130