geert crombez

Catastrophizing, time to ditch the term? Catastrophizing, a cognitive distortion that amplifies the perceived threat of symptoms, has been at the center of cognitive-behavioral models of pain and fatigue. In recent years, however, researchers argued that the concept has been misapplied and that...

This is from the same Belgian researchers who recently published a critical review of pain catastrophizing measures, discussed here. https://insights.ovid.com/article/00006396-200909000-00011