Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Chronic Pain, Morphine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Tertiary intervention: helping people cope with chronic and terminal illness. Prologue: pain is a serious and prevalent health problem, costs add up to billion/year in canada, pain is the most common medical complaint. S(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373) that"s (cid:373)ost likel(cid:455) to se(cid:374)d people to seek treatment: also the thing people fear most about treatment, pain comes in many different forms (from flickering to torturing; see p. 302) It can be brief or acute; continuous or chronic. The puzzling phenomena of pain: a world without pain, the case of miss c, miss c. was a highly intelligent young woman, and appeared normal in every respect (all five of her senses were normal). She received third degree burns from a radiator and did not know she was receiving third degree burns because she could not feel pain. She felt absolutely no pain when exposed to strong electrical shocks. She felt no pain when her hand was put in painfully cold/hot water.