by John Sarno
Sarno argues that most chronic back pain is not caused by structural abnormalities but by Tension Myoneural Syndrome, a psychosomatic oxygen-deprivation mechanism driven by repressed emotions. He claims that recognizing the emotional origin of the pain is itself the cure.
In this collection, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection references 2 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on Man's Search for Meaning and The Denial of Death.
It’s picked up by It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle.
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Sarno cites Frankl's logotherapy tradition to argue that unconscious meaning and repressed conflict manifest as bodily symptoms when denied conscious expression
Sarno draws on Becker's death-denial framework to explain why patients unconsciously generate pain to distract from intolerable psychological material
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Aligns with Sarno's Healing Back Pain on the mind-body connection, applying a similar somatic-emotional framework to inherited family trauma
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