There are a few main types of pain; physical, psychological, and psychogenic pain. Physical pain is a sensorial discomfort associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Physical pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage,” according to The International Association for the Study of Pain.
On the other hand, psychological, or mental, pain is an unpleasant feeling of a psychological, non-physical, origin. Psychological pain is often times referred to as social, spiritual, emotional, or mental pain, and is thought to be an inevitable feature of the human race. Edwin S. Shneidman, a pioneer in the field of suicidology, describes psychological pain as "how much you hurt as a …show more content…
Merskey H. and Spear F.G. defined psychogenic pain as "pain which is independent of peripheral stimulation or of damage to the nervous system and due to emotional factors, or else, pain in which any peripheral change (i.e. muscle tension) is a consequence of emotional factors." The most common types of psychogenic pain are back pain, stomach pain, and headaches, which are usually induced by grief, lovesickness, social rejection, a broken heart, or other such emotional