Rethinking the psychogenic model of complex regional pain syndrome: somatoform disorders and complex regional pain syndrome.
Explaining the etiology of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) from the psychogenic model is exceedingly unsophisticated, because neurocognitive deficits, neuroanatomical abnormalities, and distortions in cognitive mapping are features of CRPS pathology. More importantly, many people who have developed CRPS have no history of mental illness. The psychogenic model offers comfort to physicians and mental health practitioners (MHPs) who have difficulty understanding pain maintained by newly uncovered neuro inflammatory processes. With increased education about CRPS through a biopsychosocial perspective, both physicians and MHPs can better diagnose, treat, and manage CRPS symptomatology.
Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida, USA.
Renee J
RJ
Hill
Pradeep
P
Chopra
Toni
T
Richardi
Anxiety; Cognitive Therapy; Complex Regional Pain Syndromes; Conversion Disorder; Depression; Pain Disorders; Somatoform Disorders