In this monumental volume, the authors provide internists, neurologists, otolaryngologists, mental health professionals, and others who work with headache patients with a superb contribution in terms of practical considerations in the care of this condition. Sadly, Sheila Morrisey Adler, Ph.D., one of the co-authors, died shortly before this book's publication. This work is indeed a marvelous tribute to the authors' immense theoretical expertise and clinical wisdom, and is a worthy monument to Sheila Adler.

Such internationally well-known luminaries as MacDonald Critchley, Seymour Diamond, and Arnold Friedman are contributors to this work. These authors and the editors lucidly examine, with copious case examples, details and models of that baffling syndrome or state described as “headache.” Utilizing a systems or