RT Book, Section
A1 Wootton, R. Joshua
A1 Caudill-Slosberg, Margaret A.
A1 Frank, Jillian B.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131931916
T1 When Psychotherapy Is Indicated in the Management of Pain
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131931916
RD 2024/04/17
AB When  the  International  Association  for  the  Study  of  Pain  (IASP)  arrived  at  a  definition  of  pain  that  included  the  “emotional  experience,”  as  well  as  the  “unpleasant  sensory  experience  associated  with  actual  or  potential  tissue  damage,”1  it  was  acknowledging  the  impact  of  pain  on  our  human  capacity  for  sentience  and  reflection  and,  by  extension,  suffering.  By  the  time  pain  has  become  chronic  in  an  individual's  life,  it  has  almost  certainly  achieved  the  status  of  a  major  source  of  stress.  More  than  merely  an  unpleasant  sensory  stimulus,  chronic  pain  can  come  to  affect  the  whole  individual  by  becoming,  itself,  the  source  of  a  broad  range  of  psychosocial  stressors.  The  following  case  report  illustrates  the  extent  to  which  this  is  possible.