Acute and chronic pain: New understandings and treatment

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-126

  Pilowsky, Issy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PHENELZINE;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MALINGERING; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030892850     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199703000-00012     Document Type: Short Survey

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15. •] emphasizing the biopsychosocial model of illness.
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