"Chronic pain as a variant of depressive disease". A rejoinder.

The pain-prone disorder as a discrete psychobiological entity was defined on the basis of clinical evaluation, including observation of characteristic premorbid traits, psychological testing, inferred psychodynamic characteristics, a particular family history, and biological markers such as response to antidepressant medication. It is discussed in relation to the complaints of pain found in patients diagnosed primarily as depressive. The points made in the article by Turk and Salovey (J. Nerv . Ment . Dis. 172: 398-404, 1984) are considered item by item.