01052nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653000900118653002200127653001100149653001600160100003000176245007900206300001000285490000600295520052900301022001400830020001400844       1994                            d  c01/1994bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aPain10aEmotional factors10aStress10adistraction1 aMariano Chóliz Montañes00aPain as multidimensional experience: the motivational- affective dimension  a77-880 v03 aOne of the most relevant theories of pain was provided by Melzack and Casey (1968), who adopted and extended the concept of pain as a multidimensional experience. According to this model, sensory, cognitive and affective factors are the main components of pain, they are closely related, and these three processes shape the global experience of pain. In this work, we analyze the principal attributes of emotional dimension of pain, and we describe some of therapeutic applications related with affective component of pain .  a1134-7937  a2174-0437