Chronic, Intractable, Benign Pain: A Syndrome and its Treatment with Intensive Short-term Group Psychotherapy
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Human Stress
- Vol. 4 (3) , 17-21
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840x.1978.9934991
Abstract
There is sufficient reason to classify some ongoing pain problems as syndromes. Patients who suffer with chronic, intractable, benign pain syndromes (CIBPS) have truly functional biopsychosocial disorders. There is no longer any current pathophysiology operative, and the pain syndrome persists with its psychosocially perpetuating and disrupting features. An intense group psychotherapy approach in the therapeutic milieu of a medical-surgical setting fosters and evokes affect expression and understanding. This encourages the formation of cognitive patterns that are therapeutically useful in that they extend coping abilities and, hence, diminish the pain and suffering experience and life problems attendant to it.Keywords
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