Learning About the Way to Treat Mind Body Pain

Описание: Today, I am joined by Dr. Arlene Feinblatt, the chief psychologist who worked, side by side, with Dr. John Sarno in developing their system to address mind body pain that helped hundreds of thousands of people with chronic pain and symptoms, and helped launch the careers of so many mind body practitioners, including that of myself. We discussed how she came to be involved with Dr. Sarno and I was fascinated to learn that she had to convince him to let her work with him in this capacity.

As it turned out, Arlene did a brilliant job of this work and this interview shows how her deep empathy and warmth played a crucial role in her being able to understand things about the patients and shed light on them for Dr. Sarno, so that they could combine to figure out what worked to reduce their pain. One of her most notable contributions to the field was in playing a key part in recognizing ‘goodism’ — the tendency of so many pain and symptoms sufferers to go out of their way to be exceptional people in their kindness, generosity, and thoughtfulness of others — as being highly connected to what Sarno termed TMS (tension myositis syndrome…the painful, but benign musculoskeletal pain that he theorized came from emotional pain).

My discussion with Arlene touches on many things, including Dr. Sarno’s nature as a practitioner, what Arlene, Sarno, and their patients were up against in trying to be accepted by the rest of the medical community, and how the indomitable will to understand can lead to tremendous gains in helping people.