Katz, Joel2013-10-282013-10-281995Pain Forum, 4, 18-22. (1995)ISSN: 1082-3174http://hdl.handle.net/10315/26540Formerly known as APS Journal; Continued as The Journal of PainIn the focus article, Sullivan challenges a commonly held view that pain is a private, subjective experience. He argues that our experience of pain Is inescapably conceptual, as It arises into our consciousness having been shaped and filtered by language. As conceptual, pain is essentially a social phenomenon. Sullivan also states that a social conception of pain implies changes In our treatment of pain and he concludes by rejecting the cognitive behavioral view of pain In favor of a constructivist approach that acknowledges the generative Influence of language on experience.en-USArticlehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10823174/8http://www.elsevier.com/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S108231741180070X