1st Edition
Constructing Pain Historical, psychological and critical perspectives
Acknowledgements. Series editor preface. Introduction. Part A: Constructing Pain Historically 1. Constructing Modern Pain: "The Conquest of Pain" 2. Constructing Real Pain 3. Constructing Pain Nondualistically. Part B: Phenomenology and Semiotics of Pain 4. Social Representations and Discourses of Chronic Pain 5. Constructing Psychological Pain 6. Phenomenologies of Pain 7. Pain as a Sign 8. Moral Pain and Knowledge
Biography
Robert Kugelmann is a professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, USA. He is the author of Stress (1992) and Psychology and Catholicism (2011), as well as articles in the history of psychology and in health psychology.
"Pain is the most psychological of all topics. We learn here that it has always been a conceptual, methodological, philosophical, and at times troubling challenge for psychology. Kugelmann provides a scholarly, but thoroughly accessible, treatment of pain and our attempts to understand what it teaches about the human condition." Christopher Eccleston, University of Bath, UK
"Wide-ranging scholarship and keen critical insight are combined with phenomenological research in this outstanding contribution to our understanding of pain. At the same time, Kugelmann reaches beyond intellectual understandings to touch the deeply personal experience of pain. An invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners interested in this profoundly human topic." Michael P. Sipiora, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA
"A fascinating account of different approaches to the study of pain which Kugelmann connects with his own research on narratives of chronic pain. I liked the way he connects our personal experience of pain with our experience of living in a troubled world. As he says: "Pain [...] is not private. It connects us with a broken world". A truly original contribution to the literature." Michael Murray, Keele University, UK
