PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pain Management, Phantom Limb, Nociception

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2301
• Professor: Tarry Ahuja

Document Summary

Understand significance of pain, explain why pain"s difficult to study. Describe techniques used to control pain, explain how chronic pain"s managed. Some pain"s critical for survival provides feedback for body functioning. Pain = symptom most likely to lead individual to seek treatment. Psychological factors affect pain: for ex. both depression & anxiety worsen experience of pain. Research shows: patients fear pain most about illness & treatment. Ppl w/ chronic pain 2x as likely to commit suicide compared to those w/o chronic pain. Millions of dollars annually spent on remedies to temporarily alleviate pain in canada. 25% of wounded soldiers that he treated during wwii requested pain meds. In contrast: 80% of civilians requested pain meds, beecher concluded: diff meaning ascribed to pain. Soldier: alive & likely to be sent home. Pain influenced by context in which it"s experienced & by meaning attached to it.