title: Why Your HeadAches: The Latest Medical Research Explained in Plain English
author: J. Michael Jones PA-C
description: J. Michael Jones has worked in headache research and clinical practice for 23 years, first at the Michigan Headpain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor, then in the Headache Division at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and now in Mount Vernon, Washington.
zlib_text: Complex	Problems	of	Pain	As	Seen	In
  Headache,	Painful	Phantom,	and	Other
  States
  Shervert	H.	Frazier
  
  e-Book	2015	International	Psychotherapy	Institute
  From	American	Handbook	of	Psychiatry:	Volume	4	edited	by	Silvano	Arietti
  Copyright	©	1974	by	Basic	Books
  All	Rights	Reserved
  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
  
  Table	of	Contents
  The	Transmission	and	Perception	of	Pain
  Headache
  Vascular	Headaches	of	Migraine	or	Its	Variants
  Muscle-Contraction	Headache
  Combined	Headache
  Delusional	States	and	Conversion
  Posttraumatic	Headaches
  Hypochondriasis
  Causalgia	and	Painful	Phantom
  The	Peripheral	Theory
  The	Central	Theory
  The	Mixed	Theory
  Treatment
  Conclusion
  Bibliography
  
  Complex	Problems	of	Pain	As	Seen	In	Headache,
  Painful	Phantom,	and	Other	States
  To	the	sociologist,	pain	and	the	threat	of	pain	are	powerful	instruments
  of	learning	and	social	preservation.	To	the	biologist,	pain	is	a	sensory	signal
  that	warns	the	individual	when	a	harmful	stimulus	threatens	injury.	To	the
  physiologist,	pain	