Managing Pain Before It Manages You, Fourth Edition

Margaret A. Caudill, MD, PhD, MPH, is a board-certified internist and a Diplomate of Pain Medicine. For more than 30 years, Dr. Caudill has worked to improve the lives of people with chronic illness through medical treatments that address both mind and body. She has researched and written extensively on mind-body medicine and lectures internationally on the biopsychosocial treatment of pain. She is Instructor of Anesthesiology at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center's Pain Management Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Clinical Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and The Dartmouth Institute.

- Foreword, Herbert Benson
- Preface
- Before You Begin: How This Book Can Help You
1. Beginning to Take Control of Your Pain
2. Understanding Pain
3. The Mind–Body Connection
4. The Body–Mind Connection
5. The Power of the Mind
6. Adopting Healthy Attitudes
7. Nutrition and Pain
8. Effective Communication
9. Effective Problem Solving
10. The End of the Beginning
Appendix A. Common Chronic Pain Conditions
Appendix B. Complementary Alternative Medicine
Appendix C. Working Comfortably at a Computer, Nancy L. Josephson
Appendix D. Managing Osteoarthritis Pain with Medicines: A Review of the Research for Adults
Appendix E. Electronic Resources
Appendix F. Worksheets and Other Materials
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
List of Audio Tracks

Audio downloads:
Ocean Sounds (19:57)
Safe Place (21:47)
Pain Control (21:21)