title: Dealing with pain-related disabilities: non-organic components of pain.
abstract: This article briefly introduces and reviews the "non-organic" components of pain-related disability situations, discusses the effect of the complexity of the problem on physician attitudes and behaviors, provides a description of the non-organic influences and their assessment, and makes suggestions for appropriate goals for intervening in pain-related disability conditions.
authors.affiliation: Polyclinic Medical Center, Harrisburg.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Florence
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Asken
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation