title: A note on the description of pain and its causes.
abstract: The adjectives used by  72 psychiatric patients to describe pain were examined. Patients with physical lesions tended to have physical precipitants and physical relieving factors. Patients with psychologically based pain often recognized both physical and emotional preciptation. Most adjectives used were sensory rather than affective or evaluative.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D012737:Sex Factors