A great article by Michael Thacker and Lorimer Moseley that takes a step back to think about where we've come from and where we need to go.
http://cdns.bodyinmind.org/wp-content/uploads/tha10468_fm.pdf
Some quotes:
"We were invited to reflect upon brain–mind–pain interactions and to opine on whether modern neuroscience adequately considers pain phenomena and experience"...
"Our perspective is that pain is emergent. Emergent properties are those that are possessed by entire systems. A system comprises several distinct parts, and these parts interact with one another to give the system its emergent properties."...
"Clearly, the conceptual gap between pain as an injury, a dysfunction or even a disease and pain as a state that emerges from the whole person is vast. If we are to bridge this gap, we need conceptual frameworks that provide a way of integrating first- and third-person perspectives into our thinking about pain."
http://cdns.bodyinmind.org/wp-content/uploads/tha10468_fm.pdf
Some quotes:
"We were invited to reflect upon brain–mind–pain interactions and to opine on whether modern neuroscience adequately considers pain phenomena and experience"...
"Our perspective is that pain is emergent. Emergent properties are those that are possessed by entire systems. A system comprises several distinct parts, and these parts interact with one another to give the system its emergent properties."...
"Clearly, the conceptual gap between pain as an injury, a dysfunction or even a disease and pain as a state that emerges from the whole person is vast. If we are to bridge this gap, we need conceptual frameworks that provide a way of integrating first- and third-person perspectives into our thinking about pain."
