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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 | |