IASP Press
Chronic pain; an integrated biobehavioral approach. (CD-ROM included)
Flor (mental health, U. of Heidelberg) and Turk (anesthesiology and pain medicine, U. of Washington-Seattle) offer physicians a psychobiological perspective on people who experience chronic pain and describe a comprehensive approach to treating them. There has been growing recognition that neither purely somatic nor completely psychological models adequately explain the subjective experience of chronic pain and associated disability, they say, and so they focus on the interaction between the two. Their basic hypothesis is that chronic pain is a learned response whereby pain memories, rather than current nociceptive input, determine much of the pain experienced. The accompanying disk contains assessment instruments and detailed outlines of treatment protocols. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
