“Feeling Pain and Being in Pain”, 2001 (; backlinks; similar):
This book is principally devoted to the thorough consideration and general theoretical appreciation of the two most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in human pain experience. The first syndrome is related to the complete dissociation between sensory and affective, cognitive and behavioral components of pain, while the second one has to do with absolute dissociation that goes into opposite direction: the full dissociation of affective components of human pain experience from its sensory-discriminative components. The former syndrome can be called pain without painfulness and the latter one painfulness without pain.
In the first case, one is able to feel pain but is not able to be in pain, while in the second case one is able to be in pain but not able to feel pain. Taking into account our common experience of pain, it might well seem to us that the two syndromes just described are inconceivable and, thus, impossible. In order to make them more intelligible and, thus, less inconceivable, the crucial distinction between feeling pain and being in pain is introduced and explained on conceptual and empirical grounds.
But the main point is that pain without painfulness as well as painfulness without pain are, however bizarre or outlandish, nonetheless possible, for the simple reason that ample clinical evidence conclusively shows that they can be found in human pain experience. So, the question is not whether they exist or can exist, but what they can teach us about the true nature and structure of human pain experience. Accordingly, the major theoretical aim of this book will be to appreciate what lessons are to be learned from the consideration of these syndromes as far as our very concept or, more importantly, our very experience of pain is concerned.
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