John E.Sarno

The Divided Mind

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The book that will change the way we think about health and illness, The Divided Mind is the crowning achievement of Dr. John E. Sarno's distinguished career as a groundbreaking medical pioneer, going beyond pain to address the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders.
The interaction between the generally reasonable, rational, ethical, moral conscious mind and the repressed feelings of emotional pain, hurt, sadness, and anger characteristic of the unconscious mind appears to be the basis for mindbody disorders. The Divided Mind traces the history of psychosomatic medicine, including Freud's crucial role, and describes the psychology responsible for the broad range of psychosomatic illness. The failure of medicine's practitioners to recognize and appropriately treat mindbody disorders has produced public health and economic problems of major proportions in the United States.
One of the most important aspects of psychosomatic phenomena is that knowledge and awareness of the process clearly have healing powers. Thousands of people have become pain-free simply by reading Dr. Sarno's previous books. How and why this happens is a fascinating story, and is revealed in The Divided Mind.
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430 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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  • Trine Lunde Perinhas quoted5 years ago
    The psyche, in a desperate attempt to prevent the explosion of those feelings into consciousness, was making the pain worse and worse.
  • Trine Lunde Perinhas quoted5 years ago
    pain and other symptoms is in psychosomatic disorders. It is there to prevent feelings from coming out.
  • Trine Lunde Perinhas quoted5 years ago
    Here is the program I want you to follow:
    If you have not already done so, read the entire book you are using a bit at a time (Healing Back Pain or The Mind-body Prescription). After that, read the psychology or treatment chapter every day. Pay close attention to what you read, especially when you see things that remind you of yourself.
    Set aside time every day, possibly fifteen minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening, to review the material I am about to suggest.
    Unconscious painful and threatening feelings are what necessitates the pain. They are inside you; you

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