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Despite the importance of pain, and the great scientific interest in it, it is surprising how uncertain our knowledge is, both of the psychological nature of pain and about its underlying physiology. Let me begin by a reminder of some of the puzzling problems.
Prepared with the aid of grant MH-3859 from the Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, and contract AF 49(638)-1436 with the U. S. Air Force Office of Research.
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Hilgard, E.R. (1969). The Psychophysiology of Pain Reduction through Hypnosis. In: Chertok, L. (eds) Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Hypnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88002-5_13
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