Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter presents the features and characteristics of individuals that are associated with chronic headache. It also presents comparisons made among four different diagnostic groups of headache sufferers and nonheadache controls on a variety of personality measures; the relation of personality factors to headache activity in an untreated population suffering from chronic headache; and an examination of the ability of these various measures to predict the outcome of psychological treatment of headache. Patients with chronic headache, as a group, are more psychologically distressed and show more deviant personality characteristics than nonheadache sufferers do. Years of suffering chronic headache leads to personality changes, but the personality deviations predispose the individual to headache.
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