Bruno Kastler (Editor)

2007

Pain, a biopsychosocial model, is by definition multifactorial. Its treatment requires complementary medical and paramedical skills.However, this fact was only able to gain acceptance by the disruption of manifold customs and attitudes within established organ medicine, rooted in decades of tradition and whose undeniable successes gave rise to a degree of immobility, thereby guaranteeing and maintaining its power and territory.