Pain, Emotion and Cognition A Complex Nexus
This book focuses on the reciprocal interactions between pain, emotion and cognition. International experts report on their findings, clinical experience and the most recent literature on the complex relations between these three domains. Clinical, psycho
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Pain, Emotion and Cognition
Gisèle Pickering • Stephen Gibson Editors
Pain, Emotion and Cognition A Complex Nexus
Editors Gisèle Pickering Clinical Pharmacology Department University Hospital, CIC Inserm1405 Medical Faculty, Inserm1107 Clermont-Ferrand France
Stephen Gibson Clinical Research Division Royal Melbourne Hospital National Ageing Research Institute Victoria Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-12032-4 ISBN 978-3-319-12033-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12033-1
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Preface
Consciousness reigns but does not govern —Paul Valéry “La conscience règne mais ne gouverne pas” (Mauvaises pensées et autres, Tome II Oeuvres, p. 813)
This prophetic statement applies very appropriately to the pain, cognition and emotion nexus. Pain is a fundamentally conscious experience, but emotions and cognitions may govern the nature of that experience. For some time pain has been recognized as a complex biopsychosocial experience rather than a sensory circuit of unpleasant interoceptive transmission. As such there has been an ever increasing body of research into the emotional and c
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