Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 3/2010

Review of categories of psychical pain

The article is focused on the holistic approach to the pain. In the details describes psychic pain, which divides into four categories: psychic pain during the going through the psychical sorrows, psychic pain attending by the chronic or cancer pain, psychic pain during some psychiatric syndroms and existentional pain (intersection of the psychic and spiritual pain).

Keywords: psychical pain, holistic approach, coping.