Review of Psychology of pain.

Reviews the book, Psychology of pain edited by Richard A. Sternbach (1978). This book is a repository for scholarly accounts of each of the principal roots of progress in understanding, measuring, and managing clinical pain. This book does a clear, lucid and comprehensive job of relating neurophysiological with the critically important social/cultural factors about pain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)