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by: John E. Sarno See Larger Image List Price: $16.95 Our Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $9.66 Third Party New Price: $9.66 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 615 EAN: 9780061174308 ISBN: 0061174300 Label: Harper Paperbacks Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: April 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Release Date: March 27, 2007 Sales Rank: 6535 Studio: Harper Paperbacks Related Items: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection Mind Over Back Pain The MindBody Workbook To Be or Not To Be... Pain-Free: The Mindbody Syndrome see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - How Unconscious Emotions Can Create Physical Pain and Epidemics The book, "Divided Mind" is about the psychosomatic (mental) disorders that arise from interaction problems between a person's conscious and unconscious minds. The author John Sarna MD states that his goal is to "make clear that almost all common pain disorders that have afflicted millions through the years are psychosomatic". Psychosomatic problems are not illness - "they are a part of life, part of the human condition." An individual is not personally responsible for getting ... Read More Rating: - Dealing with the unconscious is not an easy task, but may be well worth it Dealing with unconscious causes of pain is not an easy task. Looking into one's emotions and doing the work of dealing with hidden rage and fear is also not easy. However, when one is looking at a lifetime of pain, culminating in death, one might want to consider the ratio of work to rewards. Even a little bit of work down this road pays off big. Once you get started, you will see this for yourself. For me, the payoff is not simply the relief of pain, although I can assure you from experience ... Read More Rating: - I'm Glad Now I Didn't Kill Myself I injured my back over 17 years ago and began the journey through the medical community that many other reviewers describe;chiropractic,acupuncture,surgery,steriod injections,etc. The absolute nadir must have been when I paid a "Rieke Master" (sp?)to hold her hands about six inches from me and ask,"Can you feel the heat from my hands?" No, of course I couldn't. I was so humiliated...you hear that when you hurt enough you'll try anything, but to find myself using a quack, that was embarrasing. The big thing ... Read More Rating: - THE Real Alternative Sarno's observations that many painful conditions are psychosomatically based (the pain is real, but the etiology involves repressive mechanisms operating in the unconscious) is a seminal insight that all western allopathic practitioners ignore to the detriment of their commitment to explore all efficacious treatments that might alleviate their patients' suffering. Purely somatically-based medicine - despite (and to a degree because) of explosive diagnostic technologies - has taken a seriously wrong turn in ... Read More Rating: - Genius Dr. Sarno's genius won't be unveiled until we (as a specie) get a grip on our emotions. For now, the world is as much divided as the mind. A tiny part understands, while the immense majority doesn't understand. Worst, that immense majority might not even be wired to understand. My dad suffers from his knee. He doesn't understand (and never will), so he keeps on suffering. It's easier for him to suffer (and get through surgery every 10 years) than to accept the fact that his knee is fine, and that ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Disorders & Diseases - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Pain Management Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Physiological Aspects Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Psychosomatic Medicine Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - General