Dr. med. univ. Mario Maleschitz, born in 1980, is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine, general practitioner with diploma for special pain therapy, certified body therapist according to the Fascial Distortion Model (FDM), general medical and psychiatric expert. He conducts his practice “hilfebeischmerz.at” with a focus on pain therapy in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria. There he works mainly according to the FDM. He was awarded the “Docfinder Patient Award” three times by his patients (2016, 2017, 2018), 2nd place in the category of most popular general practitioner within his state in 2016 and 2017, and the most popular psychiatrist in Lower Austria in 2018. Dr. Maleschitz has been dealing with the challenges of pain treatment for years. He incorporates his diverse experiences from pain outpatient clinics, pain psychological group treatments, impressions from acute medical care and from psychiatric rehab into the book. In 2017, he presented his observations for the first time at the FDM World Congress in Cologne. In 2019, another lecture on the topic “Fear and FDM” followed at the symposium in Vienna.