Psychogenic Pain: A Useful Concept?

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Doleys ◽  
Nicholas D. Doleys
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Psychogenic Pain ◽  
Mind And Body

The term “psychogenic” pain was use liberally during the 20th century. It has been applied in a number of different ways. First, to describe pain originating from psychological/psychiatric (ie, mental) processes. Second, as a way of declaring that, although there may be physical abnormalities, the degree of pain experienced is dictated by psychological states. Finally, to imply that psychological factors co-mingle with physical factors in the experience of pain, especially chronic pain. By its very nature, “psychogenic” implies of separation of mind and body. Most often it has been used as a diagnosis of exclusion—we cannot find the real (ie, medical/physical) cause, so it must be psychological, all but impugning the validity of the patient’s report. In the midst of modern technology and research, and the prevailing philosophical approach to pain (chronic), the term “psychogenic” has exhausted its research, clinical, and practical utility. This chapter provides supporting evidence for this conclusion and research data highlighting the complex and dynamic nature of pain (chronic).

scholarly journals MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA KELAS IV MELALUI MEDIA VIDEO

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
Ayatullah Muhammadin AlFath ◽  
Sugito Sugito
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Media Learning

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk meningkatkan motivasi belajar pada siswa kelas IV di SD Negeri I Wonodadi Wetan melalui penggunaan media video. Penggunaan media video dipilih karena media video sendiri dirasa mampu menumbuhkan semangat dan minat siswa dalam mengikuti pembelajaran. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif dimana peneliti mengamati secara langsung pembelajaran yang sedang berlangsung dan menggambarkan atau mendeskripsikan data hasil penelitian dari lapangan. Instrumen pengumpulan data adalah catatan harian guru, lembar observasi dan wawancara. Penelitian dilaksanakan di SDN 1 Wonodadi Wetan pada kelas 4 dengan 1 guru dan 2 siswa sebagai partisipan. Teknik keabsahan data menggunakan trianggulasi sumber dan teknik analisis data menggunakan reduksi data, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan perubahan motivasi belajar anak setelah diterapkan penggunaan media video beserta faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya. Media video menawarkan audio visual yang memberikan efek beda yang membuat pembelajaran lebih modern dan inovatif dalam pembelajaran. Kesimpulan penelitian adalah perubahan motivasi yang mempengaruhi, faktor internal berasal dari dalam diri sendiri yaitu faktor jasmaniah, faktor psikologis dan faktor kelelahan. Sedangkan faktor eksternal adalah faktor yang berasal dari luar yaitu seperti faktor keluarga, sekolah dan lingkungan. Temuan dalam penelitian ini adalah media video pembelajaran dapat digunakan sebagai alternatif dalam membantu mengembangkan motivasi belajar peserta didik. Kata Kunci : Media video, Motivasi belajar, Pembelajaran The purpose of this study was to increase the learning motivation of grade IV students at SD Negeri I Wonodadi Wetan through the use of video media. The use of video media was chosen because video media itself was felt to be able to foster students' enthusiasm and interest in participating in learning. This study uses qualitative research where the researcher directly observes the ongoing learning and describes or describes the research data from the field. The data collection instruments were the teacher's diary, observation sheets, and interviews. The research was conducted at SDN 1 Wonodadi Wetan in grade 4 with 1 teacher and 2 students as participants. The data validity technique used source triangulation and data analysis techniques used data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results showed changes in children's learning motivation after the use of video media and the factors that influence it. Video media offers audiovisuals that provide different effects that make learning more modern and innovative in learning. The conclusion of this research is the change in motivation that affects, internal factors that come from within, namely physical factors, psychological factors, and fatigue factors. While external factors are factors that come from outside, such as family, school, and environmental factors. The finding in this study is that instructional video media can be used as an alternative in helping develop students' learning motivation.Keywords: Video media, learning motivation, learning

Toward a Philosophical Approach of the Hermeneutics of the Qur’an

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Aliaa Ibrahim Dakroury
Keyword(s):  
Modern Technology ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

Although claims questioning whether religious sacred books can be “translated” or not have been heard for quite some time, they have increased with the emergence of globalization and the increasing openness and flow of information due to modern technology. In the context of the relationship between hermeneutics and communication, one could argue that interpreting the Qur’an is an interesting case study for many reasons. Among them is the number of debates and discourses that have been raised both for and against its translation. Another reason, perhaps one of the largest barriers according to some religious Muslim groups, is that the Qur’an is fundamentally revealed and written in Arabic, and, therefore, its true meaning cannot be translated into another language. Certain verses, such as “It is a Qur’an in Arabic, without any crookedness (therein): in order that they may guard against evil” (28:39), have been presented to support this argument.

scholarly journals Educational Environment of the Modern School in the Aspects of Learning Factors, School Climate and Education Paradigms

Pedagogika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
Irena Kaffemanienė ◽  
Erika Masiliauskienė ◽  
Rita Melienė ◽  
Lina Miltenienė
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Impact Interaction ◽  
Good School ◽  
Learning Factors ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the research data on the current realia of educational environment in school perceived by pupils, their parents and teachers as well as their expectations related to educational environment of the Good school. On the ground of questionnaire survey data, pedagogical and psychological factors of learning and school climate as perceived by the respondents are analysed; characteristics of educational environment are revealed in the aspects of the impact, interaction and learning paradigms.

Toward a Philosophical Approach of the Hermeneutics of the Qur’an

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Aliaa Ibrahim Dakroury
Keyword(s):  
Modern Technology ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

Although claims questioning whether religious sacred books can be “translated” or not have been heard for quite some time, they have increased with the emergence of globalization and the increasing openness and flow of information due to modern technology. In the context of the relationship between hermeneutics and communication, one could argue that interpreting the Qur’an is an interesting case study for many reasons. Among them is the number of debates and discourses that have been raised both for and against its translation. Another reason, perhaps one of the largest barriers according to some religious Muslim groups, is that the Qur’an is fundamentally revealed and written in Arabic, and, therefore, its true meaning cannot be translated into another language. Certain verses, such as “It is a Qur’an in Arabic, without any crookedness (therein): in order that they may guard against evil” (28:39), have been presented to support this argument.

Investigation the role of psychological, environmental and physical factors in tendency to addiction

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Author(s):  
S.J. Mosavi Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Treatment Methods ◽  
Effective Factors ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
First Cause ◽  
And Control

Introduction & objectivesFor better understanding of the effective factors in tendency to addiction, the research aimed to survey this question what is the first cause of addiction? Psychological, Environmental or Physical causes.Method80 addicted people were randomly selected and Abuse Drug Assessment Inventory (ADAI) was administered on them. Chi Square formula was used to analyze the results.ResultsFindings showed 55 percent of tendency to addiction was psychological. Also more analyzing showed 65 percent of continuing causes of addiction were psychological factors such as fear, anxiety, sorrow.ConclusionIn regard to results we should put more emphasis on psychological prevention and treatment methods so that both tendency to addiction and continuing causes of addiction decrease and control.

Perceived Relative Importance of Psychological and Physical Factors in Successful Athletic Performance

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Women Athletes ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Successful Performance ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Women In Sports

Ratings of the perceived relative importance of psychological and physical factors for successful athletic performance were obtained from 29 men and 53 women in sports of track, swimming, soccer, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, baseball or Softball, tennis, diving, and golf, by level of competition (high school, college, and professional), and sex of athlete. The over-all rating of the relative importance of psychological factors was 39%. Significant differences in the ratings of the relative importance of psychological factors were found for sport, level, sex, sport × level, and level × sex. Ratings of the relative importance of psychological factors for successful performance in various sports increased in the order listed above. The significant effect for level and interaction of sport × level were accounted for primarily by the higher ratings given to professional golf. The significant effect of sex and the interaction of sex × level were attributable to higher ratings of the importance of psychological variables for high school women athletes as compared to high school men athletes.

scholarly journals Medically Unexplained Pain Is Not Caused by Psychopathology

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Gagliese ◽  
Joel Katz
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Unexplained Pain ◽  
Gate Control Theory ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Gate Control ◽  
Medically Unexplained ◽  
Theory Research

This paper highlights Professor Ronald Melzack's theoretical contributions to the understanding of psychological factors in pain. His work continues to have profound influences on pain theory, research, management and public policy. His ideas have been pivotal to the acceptance of the role of the brain and psychological factors in the experience of pain. This article briefly outlines the prevailing theories of the psychology of pain before the gate-control theory. Melzack's contributions argue against the simplistic linear thinking inherent in specificity theory, which leads to the attribution of pain to either 'organic' or 'psychogenic' causes. Nevertheless, Cartesian dualism continues to thrive. The authors illustrate the nature and extent to which dualistic thinking pervades the field, show that a dualistic conceptualization of pain introduces an element of distrust to the relationship between patient and health professional, and conclude that the available data fail to reach today's standards for an evidence-based approach to pain. The authors believe that medically unexplained pain is not a symptom of a psychological disorder and that it is time to abandon the thinking that separates mind and body. The challenge remains for proponents to provide the empirical evidence to prove that psychopathology causes pain and, in so doing, to specify the mechanisms by which it is generated.

Radiant Healing

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Mental Wellness ◽  
In Transit ◽  
The Church

The Church of Divine Revelation and the Radiant Healing Center, in St. Catharines, Ontario, proposed that mystical realities shaped bodily and mental wellness. Receiving diagnoses and medical treatments from perceived disembodied beings, congregants in the 1920s and 1930s evoked the mystical origins of alternative medicine by envisioning health as a process through which spirit, mind and body coalesced. Female participants therefore were enabled to reject the label of pathology and heal themselves through the power of their minds. Uneasy with the label of paranormal or supernormal, members viewed their interactions as fulfilling rather than violating natural laws. In the process, spirits personified what Jeffrey Kripal has called “the sacred in transit” as they moved fluidly from the metaphysical to the physical. Crossing modern boundaries between faith and secular medicine, these St. Catharines spiritualists and the phantoms they envisioned reconceived the role of spirit as intervening in physical and mental processes.

scholarly journals Predictors of self-monitoring of blood glucose among noninsulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes in a primary care setting in Hong Kong: A cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 205031212110661
Author(s):  
Wing-hang Mak ◽  
Rebecca Wing-man Lau
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Primary Care Setting ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Monitoring

Objectives: The current study aimed to examine the relationship between patient characteristics (internal psychological, external psychological, internal physical, external physical, and educational) and self-monitoring of blood glucose among noninsulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes in a local primary care setting. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, in which data were collected by a structured questionnaire. Correlational and multivariate multiple regression analyses were performed. Three hundred seventy-four noninsulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes were eligible and completed the questionnaire in August 2019. The response rate was 93.5%. The respondents’ self-reported self-monitoring of blood glucose adherence was the main outcome measure. Results: In predicting self-monitoring of blood glucose adherence, the current regression model accounted for 12.3% of the variance (Adjusted R2 = 0.123, p < 0.05), with internal psychological factors and educational factors being significant. External psychological factors, external physical factors, and internal physical factors were found to be statistically nonsignificant. Conclusion: The findings highlighted the facilitating role of internal psychological factors and educational factors in SMBG adherence in noninsulin-treated type 2 diabetic patients. Among these factors, the education aspect was relatively strongly associated with increased SMBG adherence. With adequate patient education on diabetes and SMBG, the increased literacy would possibly strengthen patients’ internal psychological factors and motivate them to uptake SMBG practice. Implications from the current findings suggested that further research on different SMBG parameters is warranted to fill the knowledge gap in structuring an individualized and targeted SMBG protocol for better diabetic care.

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