Health psychological aspects of pain

Abstract

Pain is the most common complaint people would see a doctor about (Komoly & Palkovits, 2018). In order to understand the complex experience of pain, besides psychological theories, it is also important to understand what happens on the biological level when someone is experiencing pain. The book chapter attempts to integrate psychological theories and research findings that use imaging techniques to help this understanding. Based on these, we connect the experience of chronic pain to early, traumatic experiences, as the sensitivity of the nervous system can be suspected as the reason for both of them.