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“Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.” quote by John E. Sarno — Download Open image

““Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.””

John E. Sarno

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“he decides that bringing up children is the woman’s job, his children are in trouble. Either”

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“To understand the phenomenon of avoidance in TMS one must constantly bear in mind how radically the unconscious mind differs from its conscious counterpart.…

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Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

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... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

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