Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings, Second Expanded EditionIn this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasure actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as “real” and Imagined” pain, or “physical” and “intellectual” pleasure, he analyses the basic concepts—psychological, philosophical, and sociological—involved in bodily feelings and discusses how these feelings are communicated. Some of the subjects discussed in Pain and Pleasure include: self-mutilation, sexual satisfaction, “hysterical anesthesia,” false pregnancy, laughter, homosexuality, and dream analysis. |
Contents
Preface 1988 | vii |
Pain in a New Perspective 1975 | xvii |
Preface to the First Edition | lv |
Acknowledgments | lxi |
of Physics and of Psychology | 14 |
Further Reflections | 20 |
Analysis of Concepts and Clarification | 34 |
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PAIN | 49 |
The Psychology of PLEASURE | 183 |
Pleasure | 222 |
RETROSPECTS And ConclusioNS | 235 |
The Complementary Nature of the Psycho | 241 |
Sociological Considerations | 247 |
Publications on Pain by Thomas S Szasz M D | 257 |
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