Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings (Expanded) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815602309)

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.

Author: Thomas Szasz
ISBN-10: 0815602308
ISBN-13: 9780815602309
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1988
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.35w x 1.01d