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| Introduction: The Telegram | |
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| The Vale of Pain, the Veil of Pain: Pain as Metaphor | |
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| Dolor Dictat | |
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| Pain Diary: I Keep a Secret | |
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| Poena | |
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| The Descent of Pain | |
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| Their Eyes Were Open to Suffering | |
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| Evil, Hurtful Things of Darkness | |
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| No God Came to the Rescue, No Goddess Took Pity on Me | |
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| Pain Diary: I Avoid Diagnosis | |
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| Acute and Chronic Pain | |
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| Destroyer of Grief | |
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| The Plan | |
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| The Placebo Dilemma | |
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| Repressed Negative Emotions | |
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| Thistles to Thee | |
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| Jesus' Pain | |
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| The Martyr's Paradox | |
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| Trial by Ordeal | |
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| Pain Diary: I Decide to Get a Diagnosis | |
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| The Body in Pain | |
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| Pioneer Girl | |
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| The spell of surgical sleep: Pain as history | |
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| Conquering Pain | |
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| The Graft and Its Terrors | |
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| A Terror That Surpasses All Description | |
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| Drowsy Potions | |
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| Mesmerized | |
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| A Chimera Not Permitted | |
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| By Whom Pain in Surgery Was Averted and Annulled | |
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| The Slavery of Etherization | |
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| Pain Diary: I Get a Diagnosis | |
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| One's Whole Life and One's Fate | |
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| Terrible Alchemy: Pain as Disease | |
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| A Particular Chamber in Hell | |
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| The Shape-shifter | |
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| The Undeadness of Dead Nerves | |
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| Neuropathic Pain Syndromes | |
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| Surgical Pain Syndromes | |
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| A Classic Misinterpretation | |
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| �It's Hard Work Behaving as a Credible Patient� | |
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| The Paradox of Patients' Satisfaction with Inadequate Pain Management | |
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| The Scar Hypothesis | |
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| Opioid Addiction and Pseudo-addiction | |
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| Prosecuting Prescribers | |
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| The Invisible Hierarchy of Feeling | |
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| Pain Threshold and Pain Tolerance | |
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| Individual Pain Sensitivity | |
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| The Cellular Secret of the Chronic Pain Cycle | |
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| The Wonderful Dream That Pain Has Been Taken Away from Us | |
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| Pain Diary: I Try to Understand Science | |
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| Finding A Voice: Pain as Narrative | |
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| Finding a Voice | |
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| Inspiration | |
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| Suffering | |
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| Integrative and Disintegrative Pain | |
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| The Risks of Religious Belief | |
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| The Phoenix | |
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| The Feared-for Self, the Actual Self, and the Hoped-for Self | |
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| The Rustling of Strange Wings | |
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| Ghost of a Medical Meaning | |
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| The Difficult Patient | |
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| When Painkillers Create Pain | |
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| Sinister Ideas of Pathology | |
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| This Curse That I'm Living with | |
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| A Partner in Wellness | |
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| Pain Diary: I Wish for More Betterness | |
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| At the Will of the Body | |
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| More Betterness to Get | |
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| A Hundred Blessings | |
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| Fortune | |
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| The Crack Where the Light Comes In | |
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| Romantic and Physical Pain | |
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| Only Not Showing You My Devotion Is Painful | |
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| Kavadi | |
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| To Cure the Mind: Pain as Perception | |
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| What Is Pain? | |
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| The Demon in the Machine | |
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| Pain Perception and Pain Modulation | |
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| Expectation Rivals Nociception | |
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| The Magic Takes Place in Your Head | |
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| A Less Dire Narrative | |
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| Pain Diary: I Try to Change My Perception | |
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| The Anesthesia of Belief | |
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| Cognitive Control over Neuroplasticity | |
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| Terra Incognita | |
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| A Universe of Hurt | |
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| Right Next Door | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |