TREATING WITH WORDS: THE PAIN WITH NO APPARENT CAUSE

Key words: Non organic pain, Cognitive-behavioral psycotherapy

The Author offers an overview of the problem of pain with no apparent cause in children and adolescents. Two such cases, the first of fibromyalgia and the second of headache, are reported. In such cases the quality of the communication with the family and the patient is crucial and treatment is based on a cognitive-behavioural approach