Social and Interpersonal Dynamics in Pain: We Don't Suffer Alone

1.    THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

1)    Why do we care: evolutionary mechanisms in interpersonal pain (Amanda Williams)

2)    A model of pain communication (Kenneth Craig)

3)    A motivational-affective account of interpersonal pain dynamics (Tine Vervoort, Zina Trost)

2.    A SCIENCE OF PAIN EXPRESSION

1)    Pain behaviour: a unitary construct? (Kenneth Craig, Judith Versloot, Michael. Sullivan)

2)    When, how and why do we express pain? (Miriam Kunz, Tine Vervoort, Kai Karos)

3)    Ontogeny of pain expression (Ruth Grunau, Rebecca Pillai-Riddell)

4)    Pain expression and affective computing (Jeff Cohn, Ken Prkachin)

3.    THE NEUROSCIENCE OF INTERPERSONAL PAIN DYNAMICS

1)    The neural architecture of empathy in pain (Jean Decety)

2)    The pain of exclusion (Naomi Eisenberger, Gian Ianetti, Michael Bernstein, Kai Karos)

3)    The empathic and nonempathic brain (Philip Jackson and students)

4.    EFFECTS OF FACING OTHERS  IN PAIN

1)    Observer cognitive affective and behavioural responses towards others' pain (Kenneth Prkachin, Judith Kapesser)

5.   

1)    Beyond operant theory of observer reinforcement of pain behaviour: the role of validation (Steven Linton, Annmarie Cano)

3)    Caregiving impact upon sufferers' cognitive functioning (Melanie Noel)

6.    SPECIFIC POPULATIONS

1)    Neonatal care (M. Latimer, Rebecca Pillai Riddell )

2)    Parents, children, and adolescents (Christine Chambers, Liesbet Goubert, Laura Simons)

3)    Sex differences (Edmund Keogh)

4)    Interpersonal pain dynamics in couples (Annmarie Cano, John Burns)

5)    Pain in the elderly: caregiver challenges (Thomas Hadjistavropolous)

7.    TOWARDS CHANGE: TARGETS/METHODS FOR INTERVENTION

 Christopher Eccleston, Tonya Palermo

8.    CONCLUSION        

Where we've been; where we need to go: Kai Karos, Ken Prkachin, Zina Trost, Tine Vervoort