Psychological Support in the Relief of Pain

The field of psychology provides a great variety of tools that can help a person to confront, and often correct, habits that cause pain.

One modality is psychotherapy. The patient meets periodically with a psychotherapist trained in pain relief who assists the patient in learning and making changes to the patient´s lifestyle that can help to alleviate pain.

Other techniques including relaxation and imagination, can help a person recover control over parts of the body that do not respond to physically based therapies.

Rehabilitation work shared by the patient with his family has also proven to be effective in the treatment of chronic pain and can help the family prepare for the circumstance of the death of a loved one.

Psychology focuses attention on an area of great importance in a person´s life - The emotional part. Psychological attention integrated with medical attention can be an efficient alternative for resolving problems of chronic pain, cancer pain, and other problems.