Attachment and pain: Recent findings and future directions

Pain

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-198

  Porter, Laura S ^a   Davis, Deborah ^b   Keefe, Francis J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PAIN;

EID: 33847643784     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.02.001     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Brennan K.A., Clark C.L., and Shaver P.R. Self-report measurement of adult romantic attachment: an integrative overview. In: Simpson J.A., and Rholes W.S. (Eds). Attachment theory and close relationships (1998), Guilford Press, New York 46-76
2. Bowlby J. Attachment and loss: attachment vol. 1 (1982), Basic Books, NY
3. Ciechanowski P., Russo J., Katon W., Von Korff M., Ludman E., Lin E., et al. Influence of patient attachment style on self-care and outcomes in diabetes. Psychosom Med 66 (2004) 720-728
4. Ciechanowski P., Sullivan M., Jensen M., Romano J., and Summers H. The relationship of attachment style to depression, catastrophizing, and health care utilization in patients with chronic pain. Pain 102 (2003) 627-637
5. Ciechanowski P., Walker E.A., Katon W.J., and Russo J.E. Attachment theory: a model for health care utilization and somatization. Psychosom Med 64 (2002) 660-667
6. Davis D, Follette WC. Attachment, terror management, and end-of-life caregiving/receiving. Compassionate Love Conference, sponsored by the International Association of Relationship Research and the Fetzer Foundation. Normal, Illinois; 2003.
7. McDonald G., and Kingsbury R. Does physical pain augment anxious attachment?. J Soc Personal Rel 23 (2006) 291-304
8. McWilliams L.A., Cox B.J., and Enns M.W. Impact of adult attachment styles on pain and disability associated with arthritis in a nationally representative sample. Clin J Pain 16 (2000) 360-364
9. McWilliams L.A., and Asmundson G.J.G. The relationship of adult attachment dimensions to pain-related fear, hypervigilance, and catastrophizing. Pain 127 (2007) 27-34
10. Meredith P.J., Strong J., and Feeney J.A. Adult attachment variables predict depression before and after treatment for chronic pain. Eur J Pain 11 (2007) 164-170
11. Meredith P.J., Strong J., and Feeney J.A. Adult attachment, anxiety, and pain self-efficacy as predictors of pain intensity and disability. Pain 123 (2006) 146-154
12. Meredith P.J., Strong J., and Feeney J.A. The relationship of adult attachment to emotion, catastrophizing, control, threshold and tolerance in experimentally-induced pain. Pain 120 (2006) 4-52
13. Mikail S.F. Attachment and the experience of chronic pain: a couples perspective. In: Johnson S.M., and Whiffen V.E. (Eds). Attachment processes in couple and family therapy (2003), Guilford Press, New York, NY, US 366-385
14. Mikulincer M, Shaver PR. Attachment in adulthood: structure, dynamics, and change. New York: Guilford Press; in press.
15. Mikulincer M., and Shaver P.R. The attachment behavioral system in adulthood: activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. In: Zanna M.P. (Ed). Advances in experimental social psychology vol. 35 (2003), Academic Press, New York 53-152
16. Rumble M, Keefe F, Porter L, Miller J, Davis D, Scipio C et al. Relationship of marital attachment style to symptoms,self-efficacy and psychological distress in patients with lung cancer and their spouses. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Pain Society, San Antonio, TX; May 2006.
17. Tan A., Zimmerman C., and Rodin G. Interpersonal processes in palliative care: an attachment perspective on the patient-clinical relationship. Palliative Med 19 (2005) 143-150
18. Thompson D., and Ciechanowski P.S. Attaching a new understanding to the patient-physician relationship in family practice. J Am Board Fam Pract 16 (2003) 219-226
19. Williamson G.M., Walters A.S., and Shaffer D.R. Caregiver models of self and others, coping, and depression: predictors of depression children with chronic pain. Health Psychol 4 (2002) 405-410