Tell Me Where It Hurts
Rachel Zoffness
Grand Central Publishing, $30.00
It’s a rare book that both expands an issue into a dizzyingly complex problem and offers to solve it. In Tell Me Where It Hurts, pain psychologist and scientist Rachel Zoffness pulls off both.
Pain, she argues, has been deeply misunderstood. Sure, pain signals can come from damaged body parts. But that’s not the whole story. Through compelling patient stories and clear scientific descriptions, Zoffness leads readers to understand that pain is created by a complicated cocktail of elements, including emotions, trauma, beliefs and social ties. These ingredients can combine to form pain just as eggs, flour, butter and cocoa