Maldynia as a Moral Judgment?

We are dismayed to learn that “maldynia” has now entered Pain Medicine’s lexicon due in large part to the efforts of the American Academy of Pain Medicine to categorize pain “on a neurobiologic basis as eudynia (nociceptive pain) . . . or maldynia (maladaptive pain)”. These concepts, which were first suggested in 1998 by Lippe, are worthy of close examination.