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Motivational perspectives on chronic pain paul karoly and geert crombez abstract this edited volume is the first to present a cohesive account of adaptation to chronic pain from a motivational perspective across the 15 chapters scholars from diverse domains of psychology explore the multileveled and bidirectional nature of pain and . However pain is also subject to motivations an aspect that has led to considerable changes in our understanding of chronic pain over the recent years the relationship between pain and motivational states is therefore clearly bidirectional. Coping with pain a motivational perspective stefaan van damme1 geert crombez1 and christopher eccleston2 1 department of experimental clinical and health psychology ghent university belgium. Coping with pain a motivational perspective the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of motivational incongruence in chronic pain patients and the association of incongruence