James Giordano 
Maldynia [PDF ebook] 
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain

Whether initiated by injury or disease, induced and sustained by changes in the nervous system, or manifested by society and culture, chronic pain can change one’s first-person experience of the body and the world, and ultimately impacts cognitions, emotions, and behavior. Many fine medical books address the causes and management of chronic intract