| Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings (Expanded) Expanded Edition Contributor(s): Szasz, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815602308 ISBN-13: 9780815602309 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1988 Annotation: In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasing actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as 'real' and 'imagined' pain, or 'physical' and 'intellectual' pleasure, he analyzes; the basic concept--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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology |
| Dewey: 152.1 |
| LCCN: 88031915 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.35" W x 8.28" (0.91 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 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. |