The relationship between anger and pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-105

  Fernandez, Ephrem ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MIGRAINE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 17044425039     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-005-0046-z     Document Type: Review

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