PSYCHOGENIC PAIN DISORDER

ABSTRACT This article addresses the topic of 'psychogenic pain disorder'. Its scientific relevance lies in the fact that it sheds light on this type of pain that apparently has completely psychological symptoms and that, for this reason, ends up being treated by doctors as false or virtual in nature, which is not justified because those who suffer from this illness experience very real sensations of pain. Its social relevance lies in the aspect of presenting the population with scientific elements that clarify that not every type of pain that cannot be diagnosed by a doctor is unreal and, in doing so, attempts to denigrate the person of the patient. This is a bibliographical , factual research, based on classical studies and authors on the subject. The objective is to deepen the studies on this type of personal suffering that affects a good portion of the population. Psychogenic pain can be defined as a painful sensation that has no organic basis. It is any pain of entirely mental origin, and that is fixed in a part of the anatomy. There is an approach to the understanding that psychogenic pain disorder is not a disease, a priori; rather, a warning regarding an unprecedented psychological conflict, the existence and persistence of which are unbearable to the individual, and, strangely, its clarification turns into a disease, because it reveals the presence of an etiological agent. Many studies still need to be carried out, with the aim of clarifying how human thought works and what mechanisms it uses to preserve and maintain the psychic economy, sometimes using subterfuges such as the mnemonic suppression of events that the individual could not bear in a conventional way; however, there comes a time when the brain demands the reestablishment of the order broken by the situation to be discovered, because it was suppressed for the sake of the patient's well-being.