Psychological and Psychiatric Issues in Patients with Chronic Pain

Daniel M. Doleys, PhD, is the director of The Doleys Clinic/Pain and Rehabilitation Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Prior to private practice, he was an Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Psychologist Award from the Alabama Psychological Association, the Excellence in Research and Clinical Care Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Dr. Hubert L. and Renee S. Rosomoff Award for Excellence in Pain from the from the Southern Pain Society.

Scope and Complexities of the Clinical Issues
SECTION 1: CASE STUDIES
1 A Broken Life
2 Haunted by Pain, Fatigue, and Insomnia
3 The Hand That Wouldn't Move
4 Something Doesn't Seem Right
5 How Many More Are There?
6 How Can Someone Do This to Themselves?
7 An All- Consuming Problem
8 Psychologically Immobilized and Functionally Paralyzed
9 The "What If" and "Yes But" Syndrome
10 The Patient Who Remembers Tomorrow
11 Please, Find It and Fix It
12 The Unseen Reality
13 There Are Not Enough Sheep
14 The Easy but Harmful Solution
15 Is This All There Is?
16 No Way That's My Drug Screen
17 The Abandoned Patient
18 The Not-So-Perfect Remedy
19 Teenager With Disabling Leg Pain
SECTION 2: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
20 Psychogenic Pain: A Useful Concept?
21 Psychological/ Behavioral Therapies
22 The Psychology of Opioid Tapering