PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Classical Conditioning, Neuropathic Pain, Neuralgia
20 Sep 2017
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The nature and symptoms of pain: what is pain. Pain: an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. No medical complaint is more common than pain, which accounts for 80% of all visits to physicians: the qualities and dimensions of pain. Organic pain: the pain we experience that is clearly linked to tissue pressure or damage. Psychogenic pain: no tissue damage appears to exist, but the discomfort involved in these pains could result from psychological processes. All pain experiences involve an interplay of both physiological and psychosocial factors, and the dimension of pain involving organic and psychogenic causes is viewed as a continuum rather than a dichotomy. Somatic symptom disorder: when people experience long term pain as a part of excessive concerns for their physical symptoms or health. Acute pain: the discomfort people experience with temporary painful conditions that last les than about three months.
