Sublime

I looked around me—really looked, as if for the first time. It’s not an exaggeration to say that every single one of my clients who came to me for psychological treatment also had underlying physical symptoms. Long out of school, I started to ask new questions: Why did so many of my clients suffer from digestive issues, ranging from irritable bowel

hysterical disorders

Psychosomatic medicine specifically refers to physical disorders of the mindbody, disorders that may appear to be purely physical, but which have their origin in unconscious emotions, a very different and extremely important medical matter. Note that we will use the terms psychosomatic and mindbody interchangeably throughout the book, so don’t let

Then, out of the blue, he found himself saying something like, “I don’t want that job of mine. It’s too hard, and there’s too much responsibility. I want a job where somebody will tell me what to do.” And, he told me, as this revelation flashed through his mind, the severe leg pain simply…disappeared! Over the next few days he continued to have

the emotions that cause them, are universal. It is important to recognize that they are not illnesses; they are a part of life, part of the human condition