Is There Such a Thing as Psychological Pain? and Why It Matters

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 658-667

  Biro, David ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective pain center; Depression; Emotional pain; Grief; Nociceptor; Physical pain; Psychological pain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; GRIEF; HUMAN; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER;

DEPRESSION; GRIEF; HUMANS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 77957927609     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-010-9190-y     Document Type: Article

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