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Is illness behaviour related to chronicity in patients with intractable pain?

  • I. Pilowsky

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Professor I. Pilowsky, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide 5000, Australia.
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  • N.D. Spence

,Accepted 9 January 1976.

Reference 

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  2. Pilowsky I. Abnormal illness behaviour. Brit. J. med. Psychol. 1969;42:347–351
  3. Pilowsky I, Spence ND. Patterns of abnormal illness behaviour in patients with intractable pain. J. Psychosom. Res. 1975;19:279–287
  4. Pilowsky I, Spence ND. Illness behaviour syndromes associated with intractable pain. Pain. 1976;2:61–71
  5. Sternbach RA, Timmermans G. Personality changes associated with the reduction of pain. Pain. 1975;1:177–181
  6. Sternbach RA, Wolf SR, Murphy RW, Akeson WH. Traits of pain patients: The low-back “loser”. In: Paper presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. October, 1972;San Diego, Calif.

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PAIN
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 167-173 , June 1976

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