Patients with chronic pain present many diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to primary physicians and psychiatric consultants. The authors present a series of twelve patients with chronic pain who were hospitalized on the psychiatric ward of a general hospital. Ten of the twelve patients presented decreased their medication use and were markedly improved at the end of their brief stay. Treatment goals, attitudes and interventions are discussed.
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