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Chronic Headaches: Biology, Psychology, and Behavioral Treatment

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As someone who works in the field of pain psychology, I can tell you that Dr. Borkum's book, Chronic Headaches, is a remarkable accomplishment. He has managed to put into one volume very nearly everything there is to know about headache--from the various types of headache and their associated symptomatologies to the full spectrum of medical and psychological approaches to managing headache pain. Even more astonishing is his thoughtful and comprehensive review of the outcome literature in behavioral medicine treatment research. This is a work that will prove essential to medical and psychological professionals who treat patients with chronic headaches, as well as to motivated patients suffering from chronic headaches who wish to acquaint themselves with the full range of treatment options.

This book is written by a brilliant psychologist and scholar of headache literature, as well as pain literature in general, whose ability to synthesize research and to translate this knowledge into useful information is first rate. His integration and application of biopsychosocial information to headache treatment is state of the art, and obviously influenced by his experience and sensitivity to the needs of both practitioners and patients.