We know more than ever before about the neurobiological, medical, and psychotherapeutic aspects of chronic pain. But have we also understood what it is trying to tell us? Hanne Seemann has been researching, treating, and teaching psychosomatic pain in children and adults for three decades. In this comprehensive book, which does not shy away from critically engaging with the mainstream of pain therapy, she concludes that chronic pain can only be understood systemically and communicates a disturbance in a patient's lifestyle and environment that must be individually identified. The hypnosystemic approach provides the appropriate concepts to effectively address functional headaches, back pain, and fibromyalgia.