The absence of any physical change to the body indicates that the symptoms are generated by powerful emotions in the brain.

pain of a physical disorder is intensified by anxieties and concerns not directly related to the unusual condition.

Bulimia and anorexia nervosa are generally treated psychiatrically.

One of the dirty little secrets of the medical community is that clinical medicine is clearly not always as scientific as many would like to think. Of the thousands of patients with disc pathology that we have seen over the last thirty-two years, not one has ever developed “permanent nerve damage” after refusing surgery and following treatment for

Instead of healing people, the broken health care system is prolonging people’s suffering in too many cases. Instead of preventing epidemics, it is generating them.

their rage will not come out as it did in Helen’s case, for the provocation in her case was exceptional. What her case makes crystal clear is just what the role of pain and other symptoms is in psychosomatic disorders. It is there to prevent feelings from coming out. Her experience was the exception that proved the rule; an idea that I had never

This program is designed to stop the brain from producing pain because it fears that the rage, emotional pain, or sadness will manifest itself and be felt consciously if it doesn’t do something to distract you. You must sit down and think about these things every day.

It simply renders a tendon in the arm slightly oxygen deprived, which results in pain.

others simply can’t believe it can be there inside them without their knowledge. They think anger and rage are such strong emotions that one must be aware of them. The idea that emotions—raw, heated, towering emotions—can exist outside of consciousness is hard to accept. Even when people intellectually acknowledge that these might exist, they find