Projektnummer

0052650

Zusammenfassung

The precise nature of pain remains an enigma for philosophy, a challenge for science and a highly important problem for medicine. Pain's riddle lies within its unique affiliation with both the mind and the body, and its multifaceted character. Namely, pain comprises both a discriminative somatic sensation and a subjective emotion. For decades, the dominant line of scientific research has pursued pain as the sensory product of signals of tissue injury arriving at the cortex. However, many psychological studies support that empathy and compassion are fundamental to the process of deliver...