Mental Health & Chronic Pain
A live webinar recording from Migraine & Headache Awareness Week
Professor Martin examines the connections between migraine, mental health, sleep, stress and chronic pain. He also explores the lived experience of migraine and how biopsychosocial and lifestyle approaches can complement medical care.
Speaker: Professor Paul Martin
Paul R. Martin is an adjunct professor at Monash University and at Griffith University in Australia. He is a clinical and health psychologist who completed his training at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He has held a number of professional leadership positions, including national president of the Australian Behaviour Modification Association, and director of science and then president of the Australian Psychological Society.
His main research interest has been headache and migraine, with subsidiary interests in stress, depression (including postnatal depression), and social support. He has authored/edited eight books and 170 journal articles and chapters. In 2003, he received a Centenary Medal “for service to Australian society and medicine,” and in 2015, he received a Medal of the Order of Australia “for service to medicine in the field of psychology.”
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