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Multicausal Perspectives on Psychological Injury II: Chronic Pain

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Causality of Psychological Injury

Abstract

In this chapter, I continue to review recent literature in the three predominant areas of psychological injury presented in the book—Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, and mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)—concentrating on pain. Then, in the chapter that ensues, I proceed to the conclusions about the review.

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