Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily FeelingsIn 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. |
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Amazing insights regarding the convergences of feelings.....and how we have chosen to deal with them as humans, humanity, physical, psychological, subjective, objective, social, personal, community and human rights. Worth reading at least twice.
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 |
Analysis of Concepts and Clarification | 34 |
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PAIN | 49 |
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BODILY | 105 |
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLEASURE | 183 |
Pleasure | 222 |
RETROSPECTS AND CONCLUSIONS | 235 |
Sociological Considerations | 247 |
Publications on Pain by Thomas S Szasz M D | 257 |
| 279 | |
| 285 | |
Excerpts from the Literature | 170 |
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| Title | Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings |
| Author | Thomas Szasz |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0815602308, 9780815602309 |
| Length | 348 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / General |
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