Imagery and pain: The prevalence, characteristics, and potency of imagery associated with pain

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 523-540

  Philips, H Clare ^a  

^a Back in Motion Rehabilitation   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute; chronic; cognition; Index image; Pain; pain images; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REHABILITATION CENTER; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; REHABILITATION CENTERS; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 82555170597     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465811000282     Document Type: Article

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