Dr. Sarno has thousands of patients as proof that it is worth a shot. The principles behind this book apply equally to the current epidemic of mental health problems - particularly anxiety and depression - as it did to the 1990s epidemic of various ty...  Read More

Author is a marathoner with a desk job. Says his back pain has subsided after running 6 days a week.

If you have back pain, even paralyzing pain, this book is worth a try. Reading this book on audible every day for 3 weeks and utilizing his method has worked for me. Journaling opened up a porthole of creativity that unleashed something within me.

Everyone has it due to the complexity of the psyche. The solution is to expand the focus of consciousness to include not only the tyrannical 'upper class', but the whole of society. The next step, imo, is to look into the underlying shadow side emotio...  Read More

Book is 80% anecdotal stories of how people were cured with sarno's teachings. Causes of chronic pain are caused by processes in the brain, rather than the location in the body where they manifest themselves.

The ideas in this book are so simple they could be (and probably should have been) summarized in a few sentences. Everything else in his argument is plucked from thin air. Following are a few examples of reasons to be skeptical of the extraordinary cl...  Read More

Repressed emotions are the culprit. Your pain originates from all of your repressed emotions.