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Practical Psychosocial Management of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes

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Urological and Gynaecological Chronic Pelvic Pain

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Pain has been commonly defined as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associate with actual or potential tissue damage” [1]. This definition is provocative and it opens the door for considering the complexity of pain processing, stating that pain is not purely a somatic nociceptive event. Indeed, pain is considered as much an emotional experience as it can be biological.

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    Dean A. Tripp Ph.D. & Abi Muere M.Sc.

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    Dean A. Tripp Ph.D.

  3. Department of Urology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6

    Dean A. Tripp Ph.D. & J. Curtis Nickel M.D.

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Tripp, D.A., Muere, A., Nickel, J.C. (2017). Practical Psychosocial Management of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes. In: Moldwin, R. (eds) Urological and Gynaecological Chronic Pelvic Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48464-8_3

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