TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 14. Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain A1 - Wootton, Joshua R. A1 - Caudill-Slosberg, Margaret A. A1 - Frank, Jillian B. A2 - Warfield, Carol A. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. Y1 - 2004 N1 - T2 - Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e 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 they were 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 - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3410697 ER -