Chronic pain is difficult to treat and causes a great deal of suffering for those affected. Although a variety of drug and non-drug therapies are now available, purely somatically oriented therapeutic approaches often show unsatisfactory treatment results. In recent years, therefore, interest in psychosomatic approaches has risen sharply. Nevertheless, there is hardly any concrete assistance for the practice so far. This book aims to change that: It familiarizes step by step with different aspects of a psychosomatically oriented pain therapy: - Diagnostic basics of psychosomatic pain syndromes - Insights into different therapy methods - Concrete guidance in therapeutic handling: psychodynamic - behavioral therapy - systemic - Patient information material and imagination exercises - Current En.