Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for
sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific
research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by
psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many
individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious
meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain.
This ambitious interdisciplinary book includes not only essays
but also discussions among a wide range of specialists.
Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, musicologists, and
scholars of religion examine the ways that meditation, music,
prayer, and ritual can mediate pain, offer a narrative that
transcends the sufferer, and give public dignity to private agony.
They discuss topics as disparate as the molecular basis of pain,
the controversial status of gate control theory, the possible links
between the relaxation response and meditative practices in
Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation of pain and intense
emotion in music, dance, and ritual. The authors conclude by
pondering the place of pain in understanding--or the human failure
to understand--good and evil in history.
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