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Psychogenic aspect of pain & conceptualization of psychogenic pain in children

Pain is the sensory and emotional experience of discomfort which is usually associated with actual or threatened physical damage or irritation . Virtually all people experience pain at all ages . Children also experience pain from the moment of birth through child-hood years. Underestanding pain in children is very important , because of treatment im- plication and its influence in childphysical and psychological development . Experienced researchers have found that pain is a concequence of emotional disorder which is observed in some patients . in many cases we have seen that a patient says to his/her clinician that she has no pain because there is no evidence of somatic disease . Dicomfont involved in psychogenic pain seems to resort primerily from psycho-logical process . Many of physicien are familiar with unpleasant and avoidant concequences of these distortions . In these cases , it is better for us to agree with patients , experience of pain and not to probe somatic risk factors and their mechanism all the time . The researches have recognized that psychological factors can cause pain which is named psychogenic pain. it means that the cause of pain has psychological roots , versus organic pain which is related to discomfort is caused by tissue damage . In this study , theorical ,psychological,psychoanalytical and psycho social approaches and personality characteristics description related to pain and the relations among these approaches in this area have been studied . Also, the perception of pain among children with different gender have been probed.