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Emotional awareness and expression therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

- Injury
- Psychosocial pressures
- Adverse childhood experiences

Causes of Chronic Pain

- Emotional Awareness Expression Therapy (EAET)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Treatments for Chronic Pain Associated with Emotions

Chronic pain is pain that is experienced for many days during a week for three months or more, and can either be a primary or secondary symptom. 

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The body and mind has multiple ways of responding to emotions. 

Emotions, aggression and stress in the brain

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

- Theories of emotion
- Evolutionary viewpoint of emotions
- How many emotions are there
- Brain circuits for different emotions
- Neural circuitry of violence and aggression
- Stress and body responses
- Emotions and the immune system

Subjects in emotions, aggression and stress in the brain

- Fear is one of Paul Ekman's 6 basic emotions that he believes are universal and genetically predisposed.
- Charles Darwin's theory of serviceable habits suggests that there is something adaptive in the form of the expression itself. Hence for example, the facial expression for fear is adaptive because you have to take as much information as possible to assess the environment and situation. 

Fear

Chronic Pain

Cognitive reappraisal is an emotional regulation strategy that encourages the reinterpretation of an emotional stimulus in order to change the meaning of the stimulus.

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