Overlapping Pain and Psychiatric Syndromes
Global Perspectives

Chronic pain seldom presents alone. Pain patients frequently have comorbid psychiatric conditions and those suffering from mental illness often experience pain. Nonetheless, pain conditions and psychiatric disorders have customarily been understood and treated as different and separate clinical entities, to the detriment of patients' wellbeing. This book will describe the complex and striking relationships between pain and psychiatric disorders, offering the first comprehensive review of the challenging and neglected intersection between pain medicine and psychiatry. Written by world-renowned experts in the fields of pain and psychiatry, chapters contribute a valuable array of clinical and theoretical perspectives and include illustrative case examples throughout.

MARIO INCAYAWAR, MD, MSC, PHD, is a physician-scientist, educator, and published author specializing in psychiatry and pain medicine. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, he has held the Henry R. Luce Professorship in Culture, Brain, Mind, and Medicine at the Claremont Colleges; and the William F. Quillian Jr. International Professorship, at R-MWC, Virginia. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association from 2005 to 2011 and is the founder and director of the Runajambi Institute. www.runajambi.org/incayawar SIOUI MALDONADO BOUCHARD, MSC, PHD, is a neuroscientist specializing in behavioral neuroscience and psychology. She has conducted research about the impact of the social environment on spinal cord injury and the association between the social environment and pain. The translation of scientific knowledge to the larger medical community and beyond is particularly important to her. A former post-doctoral fellow at the Pain Genetics Laboratory at McGill University, she has contributed several papers in Canadian and American journals for the medical community.