Is pain "all in your head?"

The politics of pain is a debated field of study—with no conclusive answers.

Pain. We all know it when we feel it, but what is pain, really?

Stub your toe, there’s pain. Go through a break-up—pain. Yet these are seemingly different spheres, one a physical insult, the other an emotional assault. Must we take the Cartesian line and separate bodily hurt and mental anguish? Are emotions not part of our physiology as well? Does slici…