... Clinimetrics Dysthymia Mental pain Allostasis Depression Anxiety Discomfort Well-Being Therapy For many years, in the psychiatric literature the term euthymia connoted the lack of mood disturbances meeting the threshold for a mental disorder such as depression or mania, as assessed by diagnostic...

... of mental pain. The aim of this paper is to outline the implications that assessment of mental pain may entail in psychiatry and medicine, with particular reference to a clinimetric index. A simple 10-item self-rating questionnaire, the Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), encompasses the specific clinical...