Pain and Consciousness in Humans. Or Why Pain Subserves the Identity and Self-representation

Traditional definitions of pain assume that an individual learns about pain through verbal usages related to the experience of injury in early life. This emphasis on the verbal correlates of pain restricts our understanding of pain to the context of adult human consciousness. In this paper we instea...

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Main Authors: Irene Venturella, Michela Balconi
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2016-08-01
Series:Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
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Online Access:http://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2016.0018/646