title: Treatment of chronic pain in the general psychiatric hospital.
abstract: Patients with chronic pain present many diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to primary physicians and psychiatric consultants. The authors present a series of twelve patients with chronic pain who were hospitalized on the psychiatric ward of a general hospital. Ten of the twelve patients presented decreased their medication use and were markedly improved at the end of their brief stay. Treatment goals, attitudes and interventions are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012803:Sick Role; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology