Education and Training for On-Line Searching: A Bibliography

This annotated bibliography is intended to be used by searchers, educators, library administrators, and other reference department staff who must plan or provide for the training and continuing education of on-line searchers. It was compiled for the MARS Committee on the Education and Training of Search Analysts

Historical context: psychological mislabeling and the emergence of the biopsychosocial model

Since the end of the last century, we have approached chronic pain through the assumptions of the biopsychosocial model. Not without its critics, this model provides useful scaffolding for the multiple determinants of human illness. The same cannot be said of its predecessor, the psychogenic model. Grounded in 19th century psychoanalysis, this model understood headache, fibromyalgia, and many other pain disorders as psychological problems in disguise. Only in recent decades has the psychogenic model begun to relax its grip on medicine. This chapter traces the origin and demise of the psychogenic model and its replacement by the biopsychosocial model. It contrasts psychoanalytic and psychobehavioral case studies in order to underline the distinction between psychogenically-based treatment and contemporary pain management training. And it describes a procedure for reducing the risk of psychological mislabeling that is inherent in an overtly psychological medical model

A study in psychological mislabelling: the rise and (protracted) fall of psychogenic fibromyalgia

Both files attached to this item are Author’s Original Manuscripts (AOM) of an article published by Taylor & Francis (originally published by Maney Publishing) in International Musculoskeletal Medicine on 2010-09-01, available online: http://tandfonline.com/10.1179/175361410X12798116924336This article provides a brief history of the psychogenic model of fibromyalgia from its origins in the late 1800s to its undoing a century later. Psychogenic fibromyalgia reached a high watermark in the 1930s in the anecdotal reports of a psychoanalytically-oriented Scottish disability examiner. Subsequent research, however, failed to provide convincing support for the psychogenic model, with at least four research reviews concluding there was little empirical evidence for psychological causation in fibromyalgia. By the end of the last century, psychogenic fibromyalgia was in full retreat before an advancing biomedical literature and a cognitive-behavioural coping treatment that viewed psychological distress as more consequence than cause of the disorder. Today, psychogenic fibromyalgia draws only a passing historical reference in the leading textbooks of rheumatology and psychosomatic medicine

Psychological mislabeling of chronic pain: Lessons from migraine in the 20th century

The unabridged pre-print file is the "submitted version" of an article submitted for publication to Pain Management, published online 2016-11-24: http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/pmt-2016-0034. Print publication was March 2017. The abridged pre-print file is a shorter version of the author's original manuscript that focuses on the migraine content over the additional pain management content present in the unabridged pre-print.Migraine and many other medical disorders were viewed as psychological problems in disguise for much of the 20th century. Starting with Freud, psychoanalytically oriented practitioners described a complex of unconscious conflicts, desires, and personality traits they believed to be the primary cause of a wide range of medical conditions. With the advance of basic research and pharmacotherapy, the psychogenic model was gradually replaced by a biopsychobehavioral model. This model treats migraine as a biologically-based disorder that can be influenced by psychological factors and lifestyle. The present paper argues that for many migraine patients, psychological factors may not play a significant role