Meanings of Pain: Volume 2: Common Types of Pain and Language

Experiential evidence shows that pain is associated with common meanings. These include a meaning of threat or danger, which is experienced as immediately distressing or unpleasant; cognitive meanings, which are focused on the long-term consequences of having chronic pain; and existential meanings such as hopelessness, which are more about the person with chronic pain than the pain itself.

This interdisciplinary book - the second in the three-volume Meanings of Pain series edited by Dr Simo...