TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - When Psychotherapy Is Indicated in the Management of Pain 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. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e 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. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131931916 ER -