About pain and its eroticization: contributions to understand the pain phenomenon

Authors

  • Rui Aragão Oliveira PhD, Psicanalista; Unidade de Investigação em Psicologia e Saúde/ ISPA / Universidade de Évora

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https://doi.org/10.25759/spmfr.21

Abstract

Introduction: In this work, pain is conceptualized in its subjective expression, related with pleasure, human suffering and mental balance.

Purpose: Consider the main expressions associated with the emotional pain of grief experience in physical rehabilitation.

Methods: It is performed a comprehensive analysis of psychoanalytic content on the most relevant characteristics of mental functioning in the phenomenon of body pain.

Discussion / conclusions: Feelings of guilt, historical family characteristics of feeling pain and the development of pain as a substitute for experience of loss are discuss. We will also commented efficacy of psychotherapy in patients with chronic pain.

Keywords: Pain; Pleasure; Stress; Psychological; Psychoterapy.

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Oliveira RA. About pain and its eroticization: contributions to understand the pain phenomenon. SPMFR [Internet]. 2013 Feb. 10 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];21(1). Available from: https://spmfrjournal.org/index.php/spmfr/article/view/21

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