ORIGINAL ARTICLE: PDF OnlyComments on “Chronic Pain as a Variant of Depressive Disease The Pain-Prone Disorder“Merskey, H Author Information An investigation of pain in psychological illness. D.M. Thesis, Oxford, 1964. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: July 1982 - Volume 170 - Issue 7 - p 409-411 Buy © Williams & Wilkins 1982. All Rights Reserved.