Regine Klinger (PhD) is responsible for the Department Pain Psychology at the Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Until December 2016 she was the president of the German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Research (DGPSF), the vice president of the German Pain Society (Deutschen Schmerzgesellschaft e.V.), and vice-president and member of the advisory board of the German chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Her main areas of research are psychological pain management in headache and back pain, placebos and nocebos, learning processes in the development and maintenance of chronic pain, and pain classifications.

Systematic, comprehensive and clinically oriented

Describes symptoms on a psychosocial level

Provides an easy introduction to biopsychological perspective on chronic pain disorders

Eligible add-on for ICD-11 pain diagnoses

Sheets for rating psychosocial findings available online

Relevant for the European pain specialists and part of the European Pain Federation curriculum (EFIC)

Introduction.- Description and Evaluation of Approaches to the Classification of Chronic Pain.- The Possibilities for Classification within the Internationally Accepted Diagnosis Key ICD (see also DSM for Chapter V (F)).- IASP-Taxonomy.- Headache Classification of the HIS.- The Multiaxial Pain Classification MASK of the DGSS.- The Multiaxial Pain Classification - Somatic Dimension (MASK-S).- The Multiaxial Pain Classification - Psychosocial Dimension (MASK-P).-The Multiaxial Pain Classification - Psychosocial Dimension.- (MASK-P): Theoretical Background, General Guidelines and Operationalization of the Axse.- Theoretical Background.- The Behavioural Theory Basis.- Depth Psychology Basis.- System Theoretical Basis.- General Guidelines.- Restrictions of the MASK-P - Codes Relating to Psychopathological Disorders as classified by ICD / DSM.- Operationalization and the Awarding of Codes.- Axis Supplementary code.- Time Supplementary Code MASK-P- Rating Form Diagnostic Axis 11: MASK-P-Diagnoses.- MASK-P - Diagnosis- and Rating Form.- Training Implications.- Deriving the Therapeutic Indications.- Combining with ICD and DSM / Examples of Applications.- MASK-P - Operationalisations.- Motor Behavioural Strategies for Coping with Pain.- Emotional Coping Strategies for Pain.- Cognitive Coping Strategies for Pain.- Illness Related Metacognition.- Current Stressors.- Trauma / Stress in Life-History.- Habitual Personal Features.- Maladaptive Coping Strategies.-Psychophysiological Dysregulation.- Coping Styles for Conflict.- MASK-P - Diagnosen: Functional Connections.- Literature List.- Tables.