Rachel Zoffness (on pain)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- April 15, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 3m
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- Last updated
- Apr 25, 2026
Discusses Rachel Zoffness (Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal) is a psychologist,…
Summary
Rachel Zoffness (Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal) is a psychologist, pain scientist, and author. Rachel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why she was drawn to pain in her early neuroscience studies, the most pressing question regarding pain being made in the brain, and how a pain psychologist is like a used car salesman.…
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Rachel Zoffness (Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal) is a psychologist, pain scientist, and author. Rachel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why she was drawn to pain in her early neuroscience studies, the most pressing question regarding pain being made in the brain, and how a pain psychologist is like a used car salesman. Rachel and Dax talk about the biopsychosocial factors that contribute to pain, definitive psychological origins of phantom limb syndrome, and