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Descriptor English: Pleasure-Pain Principle
Descriptor Spanish: Principio de Dolor-Placer
Descriptor principio de placer-dolor
Scope note: Concepto psicoanalítico de que el hombre busca instintivamente evitar el dolor y las molestias y lucha por conseguir gratificación y placer.
Descriptor Portuguese: Princípio do Prazer-Desprazer
Descriptor French: Principe de plaisir-déplaisir
Entry term(s): Pleasure Pain Principle
Pleasure-Pain Principles
Principle, Pleasure-Pain
Principles, Pleasure-Pain
Tree number(s): F02.739.794.746
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010990
Scope note: The psychoanalytic concept that man instinctively seeks to avoid pain and discomfort and strives for gratification and pleasure.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 73
History Note: 73(64)
DeCS ID: 11418
Unique ID: D010990
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1991/06/11
Pleasure-Pain Principle - Preferred
Concept UI M0017036
Scope note The psychoanalytic concept that man instinctively seeks to avoid pain and discomfort and strives for gratification and pleasure.
Preferred term Pleasure-Pain Principle
Entry term(s) Pleasure Pain Principle
Pleasure-Pain Principles
Principle, Pleasure-Pain
Principles, Pleasure-Pain



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