Theories of emotion, self-regulation and pain

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1. ‘What do I do when I’ve had enough’: The Effect of Emotions on Self-regulation & Chronic Pain
   As soon as read the first paragraph of the paper I’ve used as the basis for this post, I knew I was onto something that resonated with my original occupational therapy values. It says this:‘Living with chronic pain is a balancing act. People with chronic pain are required to make daily decisions [...]... Hamilton, N., Karoly, P., & Kitzman, H. (2004) Self-Regulation and Chr
2. Emotions and self-regulation in chronic pain
   I posted about the reciprocal effect of emotions on goal content and today I want to look a little further into this.A profound statement in the paper by Hamilton, Karoly & Kitzman is this: ‘If emotional well-being influences the selection and the valuation of a particular goal, then it is likely that the relationship between [...]... Hamilton, N., Karoly, P., & Kitzman, H. (200
3. The Psychology of Pain: "I Didn't Mean It!"
   There's a phrase we hear all the time, and one that suggests something about our psychological makeup: we're not just concerned with actions, but with their attendant mens rea - or lack thereof - as well. If it wasn't intentional, then it's not as painful.And, as it turns out, that is quite literally true: Harvard researchers Kurt Gray and Daniel Wegner recently found that we experience greater p
4. Looking inside the brain in real time. Possible?
   Could it soon really be possible to look inside the brain in ‘real time’. Over the last three decades we have made leaps-and-bounds in developing non-invasive processes to scan brains; PET, MRI, fMRI etc. These scanning techniques have allowed psychologists an insight into the processes of the brain during specific tasks or just [...]
5. Overdoing or Underdoing: Activity levels in chronic pain
   By a strange coincidence, after writing about regulating activity levels yesterday, I came across a pre-print editorial in the European Journal of Pain discussing exactly this: avoidance or persistence.We’ve become quite familiar with the avoidance idea - avoidance leading to deactivation, leading to disability, loss of roles, depression and so on. There have been [...]... Karsdor