The science of understanding avoidance behavior when an individual has chronic pain.

The science of understanding the 9 chronic pain subgroups.

This paper presents the Realization Process, a method of body psychotherapy that includes a series of inward attunement exercises for experiencing unitive consciousness as the basis of deepened contact with one’s own being and with other people. The paper focuses primarily on this method’s understanding and facilitation of embodiment. In the Realization Process, embodiment is viewed as the experience of being present everywhere in one’s body simultaneously, as unitive consciousness.

This paper explores the relationship between psychopathology and chronic pain within the literature as well as from a clinical perspective. Working in the pain management field for several years, questions have come up about this relationship and how exactly does psychotherapy help a person in obvious physical pain. In fact, what is pain anyway?