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Fordyce (1978) defines pain as “... an unpleasant experience which we primarily associate with tissue damage, or describe in terms of such damage, or both... and the presence of which is signalled by some form of visible or audible bahaviour.” In trying to explain the onset, maintenance and relief of pain to our chronic pain patients using a psychological perspective, we seek psychophysiological mechanisms which operate rapidly to mediate underlying pain neurophysiology. Given our present limited understanding of pain phenomena we may have to sacrifice validity for a plausible explanation in which patient and therapist can share some confidence, and from which treatment objectives can be developed.
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Kirby, P.F. (1985). Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6772-1_5
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