…. the field of “classical conditioning” has possibly just become the single most thrilling area in the whole of human psychology/physiology today, capable of completely revolutionising therapy across a massive range of disorders, and even capable of changing the world.
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… let’s deal with what might be the two biggest obstacles to understanding what works and what doesn’t: the meaning of two troublesome words, “anecdote” and “placebo”.
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Experts agree that up until now there has been no therapy, whether that is psychological, pharmaceutical, physiotherapy, or even surgery, that has helped the overwhelming majority of chronic pain patients whose pain is not explained by pathology.
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Not many people realise that only around 20% of chronic pain sufferers actually get relief from current treatments, which is not different to placebo, and that this leaves around 3 million Australians experiencing pain pretty much on a daily basis.
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86 separate references and commentary follow this brief discussion.
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To this day CBT is regarded by many as the “gold standard” of therapy for a very wide range of problems and disorders from anxiety and depression, through to unresolved chronic pain.
SDR stands for “disruption of reconsolidation”.
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This article looks at several reasons why chronic pain patients may not approach a psychologist for help, and/or may not return for more sessions to support or assist them.
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Right now, just in my city of 2 million people, there are 400,000 people who live with chronic pain pretty much every day.
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Unlike people who develop chronic pain, here\’s an example of my own as well as an explanation of how \”normal\” recovery differs from the development of chronic pain. This is a story that is no doubt being played out by millions of people around the world right now as you’re reading this.
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