RT Book, Section
A1 Wootton, Joshua R.
A1 Caudill-Slosberg, Margaret A.
A1 Frank, Jillian B.
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
SR Print(0)
ID 3410697
T1 Chapter 14. Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain
T2 Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
YR 2004
FD 2004
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071443494
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3410697
RD 2024/09/12
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.