Chronic pain Quote by John E. Sarno

““I described a program that is in wide use across the country to treat chronic pain. It bears repeating here that treating pain is not medically sound. Pain is a symptom, like fever. It has been elevated to the status of a separate disorder on the hypothesis that certain psychological factors cause the patient to exaggerate the pain. As stated before, this theory requires that one acknowledge the continuing presence of a structural reason for the pain—which is then exaggerated. In””

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

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“What one must then do is develop the habit of “thinking psychological” instead of physical. In other words, I suggest to patients that when…

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