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Historique de la douleur en santé mentale

History of pain in mental health

  • Revue de la Littérature / Literature Review
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Douleur et Analgésie

Résumé

L’insensibilité à la douleur chez les patients schizophrènes est suggérée par les observations cliniques, les études des cas et les études expérimentales. L’analyse de la littérature ne permet pas de conclure à une réelle analgésie chez les patients schizophrènes mais à un mode d’expression différent de la douleur, un langage et un comportement en lien avec la pathologie psychiatrique. Les travaux récents viennent confirmer cette hypothèse.

Abstract

Several lines of evidence (case report, epidemiological studies, experimental studies) suggest that patients with schizophrenia show an insensitivity to pain. We reviewed the literature on this specific topic. There is a lack of evidence to prove a real analgesia. Patients with schizophrenia express their emotion in general and pain in particular in a different way. The most recent research works confirm this hypothesis. Patients feel pain but do not express it by adapted social skills.

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Saravane, D. Historique de la douleur en santé mentale. Douleur analg 24, 171–175 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11724-011-0256-6

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