John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The outcome of this conflict was that the erotic idea was repressed from association and the affect attaching to that idea was used to intensify or revive a physical pain which was present simultaneously or shortly before. Thus it was an instance of the mechanism of conversion for the purpose of defense, which I have described in detail elsewhere.
My understanding differs significantly from Freud's. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A vata imbalance may also manifest as rough skin, arthritis, emaciation, stiffness, constipation, dryness, thirst, insomnia, excessive sensitivity and excitability, and physical pain. There is a tendency to large-intestine disorders such as excess gas, low back pain, sciatica, paralysis, and neuralgia. Vata personalities are adversely affected by cold, windy, stormy, and rainy weather, which can directly imbalance their nervous system. For example, the author once helped a person with a predominant vata dosha stop her insomnia by having her turn off her fan at night. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | This young man received no treatment, he simply learned something by reading my book, and through a mental process managed to eradicate a severe physical pain. Knowledge is power. Let us see what his experience tells us about the psychosomatic process.
FIGURE 1
TMS PAIN (MILD OXYGEN DEPRIVATION)
CONSCIOUS MIND
UNCONSCIOUS MIND
RAGE EMOTIONAL PAIN SADNESS
THE BRAIN'S DECISION MAKER —? (THE EGO)
What immediately comes to mind is that this was a very intelligent, well-educated, conscientious, hard-working, high-achieving young man. How did he get that way? |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
See book keywords and concepts |  BACKED-UP PLUMBING
The consequence of this problem is physical pain and the accumulation of waste products due to clogged plumbing in the body. The longer the plumbing stays clogged, the greater the amount of localized tissue damage.660
Clogged plumbing in the body is like clogged plumbing in a house; the restrooms need to be used on a regular basis, but the waste products are backed up. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Furthermore, physical pain and humiliation neither secure the compliance of the
The execution room at Abu Dhraib Prison near Baghdad was once used to hang opponents of Saddam Hussein and is now a notorious U.S. military prison. victim nor yield secret truths. In fact, torture may even produce less reliable information than traditional interrogations do. In the 1940s, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited police from applying physical pressure on suspects. Police departments have since taught a range of new psychological techniques that are equally (or more) effective. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | Complicating the picture even more, the painkiller will dull emotional pain long after the physical pain has worn off. People will convince themselves, their families, and their physicians that the physical pain is still present, but it is withdrawal symptoms and emotional pain that are really being treated.
THE STIMULANTS
Stimulant drugs prescribed under the guise of antidepressants or appetite suppressants are the next most commonly abused prescription drugs. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | He said the pain was characteristic of something known in his day as "muscular rheumatism," where the muscles were painful and sensitive to pressure, and that the psyche used the physical pain for its own purpose, that is, to convert a psychic process into a physical one. Freud also maintained that the location of her pain had symbolic meaning, and that the pain in her thigh could be attributed to the fact that her father's leg rested on her thigh when she treated him.
Viewed in terms of our psychosomatic concepts, the picture looks quite different. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  My life had become so stressful, and my physical pain so enormous, that I often thought i would have to go on disability. My system was in chaos: my eyes surrounded by rashes, my tongue burning, my muscles aching, and my digestion completely malfunctioning. I was exhausted and miserable.
Eventually I realized I was suffering from one of those diseases for which most conventional doctors have little patience: chronic fatigue syndrome. |
Robert Whitaker
See book keywords and concepts |  Physicians may have reasoned that terror, punishment, and physical pain were good for the mentally ill, but the mentally ill, unschooled in Freudian theories, saw it quite less abstractly. They now perceived themselves as confined in hospitals where doctors, rather than trying to comfort them, physically assaulted them in the most awful way. Doctors, in their eyes, became their torturers. Hospitals became places of torment. This was the beginning of a profound rift in the doctor-padent relationship in American psychiatry, one that put the severely mentally ill ever more at odds with society. | | And it's not just mental pain. The physical pain is indescribable. You can't urinate but you feel like you have to urinate, then you finally can urinate and you feel like fire is coming out of you. You feel like you have to sleep but you can't. You shake all the time. I felt like there were fire ants that had got underneath my skin and were biting me all the time. I'd be up in the middle of
*Drug studies in schizophrenia regularly use "relapse" as an outcome measurement. However, what constitutes relapse isn't well defined. Some investigators use rehospitalization as the criteria for relapse. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For centuries alcohol was used as an anesthetic to treat physical pain. Nowadays it is used to anesthetize emotional pain. Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are clearly diseases that involve genetics, social/cultural values, and environmental influences and that have emotional consequences. It is possible that it may involve an enzyme deficiency or be linked to a deficiency or improper function of chromium (a trace mineral related to blood sugar metabolism). Whatever its cause, problems related to alcohol abuse definitely seem to run in families. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts |  Short-term muscle contraction uses energy; therefore, it causes no pain and can be used as a defense against expected emotional or physical pain.
However, if a muscle remains permanently contracted, the reduced blood and energy flows cause pain from accumulating toxins, oxygen deficiency, pressure on nerves, energy congestion, and overactive acupuncture points. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Not only do they have physical pain but they also feel immense emotional deprivation and financial pressures. This happens especially when insurance coverage is denied in spite of obvious improvement after finally finding help with appropriate environmental medical therapy. This illness can be expensive to treat, and family funds can be depleted quickly. This book will help you treat this illness, sometimes inexpensively, and even better, it will help you learn how to prevent it.
Affected children are even more confused and bewildered than adults. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | People will convince themselves, their families, and their physicians that the physical pain is still present, but it is withdrawal symptoms and emotional pain that are really being treated.
THE STIMULANTS
Stimulant drugs prescribed under the guise of antidepressants or appetite suppressants are the next most commonly abused prescription drugs. These are sold on the street as "uppers"; most of the so-called legitimate drugs are variations of the street drug called speed or metham-phetamine. |
Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman
See book keywords and concepts |  CASETAKING QUESTIONS FOR INSOMNIA Character of the symptoms: žWhat seemed to cause the sleeping problem—an emotional upset, being overworked, physical pain, or something else? žIs the person irritable or anxious while trying to get to sleep? žIs the mind overactive? žIs the person restless? Does the bed or pillow feel uncomfortable? žIf the person is able to fall asleep initially but wakes up during the night, at what time does he awaken?
Associated symptoms: žIs there frequent sighing or yawning? žDoes the person sob or weep during sleep? |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Complicating the picture even more, the painkiller will dull emotional pain long after the physical pain has worn off. People will convince themselves, their families and their physicians that the physical pain is still present, but it is withdrawal symptoms and emotional pain that are really being treated. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The first phase of treatment—which included psychotherapy, neu-rotherapy (an advanced form of biofeedback), photon stimulation (a new technique for relieving pain and inflammation), and medication—reduced Naomi's anxiety and physical pain. Remeron (mir-tazapine)—an antidepressant with stomach-calming action—helped to relieve her nausea. Next, she wanted to try Rhodiola rosea for her fatigue. As her dosage of the herb increased, so did her level of energy. With 600 milligrams daily, she felt an energy surge that pushed her to walk twice as far as she could before. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  In the meantime, the researchers said, exercise may be an important component of treatment for body image problems, substance abuse problems, and somatic disorders in which mental symptoms manifest as physical pain. Exercise, they said, is an effective short-term treatment for reduction of destructive behavior and for increasing work performance in people with developmental disabilities, such as attention deficit disotder, which is marked by an inability to concentrate and hyperactivity.
Exactly how exercise helps to lessen depression and other psychiatric disorders is not fully understood. |
Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner
See book keywords and concepts |  But as anyone who has ever suffered from depression can tell you, physical pain is not the only kind that can torment us. There's also aching emptiness, pangs of regret, and a pervasive sense of sorrow, loss, and despair that makes the start of each new day sheer agony. Emotional pain can be disabling—and deadly.
Sometimes the pain of depression, which I'll discuss in more detail later, is so relentless or becomes so unbearable that people end their own lives to escape it. On an average day, eighty-four Americans commit suicide, and nineteen hundred more attempt it. |
Andrew L. Stoll
See book keywords and concepts |  In my practice, individuals with major depression often tell me that the psychic pain of their illness pervades every aspect of their existence and is worse than any physical pain they have endured.
This may sound dramatic, but think about the 765,000 suicide attempts and 30,000 suicides in the United States each year. That is 84 suicides a day, or 1 every seventeen minutes, and these are only the official numbers. The actual figures are likely much higher. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Is it worth losing so much for a short period of numbness or being insensitive to emotional or physical pain? In blocking the bad feelings, we also block the good feelings. Elder Boyd K. Packer, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints spoke in the October 1989 worldwide General Conference. He spoke of drugs which numb or dull the senses, legal as well as illegal drugs. He said, "The Holy Ghost communicates with the spirit through the mind more than through the physical senses. This guidance comes as thoughts, as feelings, through impressions and promptings. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These modalities can also work psychotherapeutically and are known to decrease physical pain, fever, and anxiety, and speed physical healing.
For nearly a century now, chiropractic technique and osteopathy have both put forward the idea that structure regulates function. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
See book keywords and concepts |  When he did exercise, he went at it intensely—with an aftermath of physical pain that he could never seem to recover from one hundred percent. Nevertheless, Bob had a vision of himself as an athlete. It was an outdated vision left over from his teenaged and early adult years, and it was leading him astray.
Bob had played on his high school's varsity football team. When he failed to make the college varsity team, he settled for intramural sports—basketball, tennis, some football. But once Bob's school days ended so did most of his sports activities. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  If you're coping with a disease, you should be able to get as much information as possible about your condition and thereby start to overcome the fear of the unknown that can be as debilitating as actual physical pain. A number of people came to consult with me after reading one of my previous books, Seven Weeks to a Settled Stomach, and said, "I wasn't able to make myself better, which is why I'm here, but at least I feel better understanding the problem, so I'm less emotionally upset by it." This is part of intelligent medicine. |
Donald M. Epstein
See book keywords and concepts |  The body then devotes its energy toward building rigid muscular walls and energetic blocks that ultimately lead to physical pain. Emotional distress is also associated with energy that is blocked in any area of the body. These conditions, of course, demand more attention and consume more physical energy than a healthier existence.
Healing is natural and spontaneous, but an inability to experience our body with confidence and trust can hinder the healing process. Our body attempts to heal itself by releasing what it no longer needs ?physically, chemically, emotionally, or energetically ? | | Medication could no longer mask his physical pain. Joe felt he was losing control over his life, and his physical and emotional condition deteriorated. At work, he was getting confused and less tolerant with clients. Then one day, after an angry outburst in the courtroom, Joe collapsed in pain.
Joe was incapacitated and confined to bed, and his wife reported that he "cried like a baby" for hours at a time. She soon became disgusted and frustrated with her husband, who could no longer contain his feelings and had "lost his dignity." Joe realized that his life was no longer under control. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  Among other conditions that Sirkin has seen improved as a result of using Bach flower essences are: insomnia and nightmares, anxiety, boredom, irritability, mental fatigue, fear, lack of trust, impaired motor skills (balance), cuts and bruises, residual physical pain related to emotional trauma, and general lifestyle issues related to stress, overwork, strained relationships, and challenges related to school. She also finds the essences useful for dealing with emotions related to pregnancy, premenstrual syndrome and menopause, and addressing the delayed effects of emotional shock and trauma. | | The following stories demonstrate how imagery can be used to help identify thoughts and fears at the root of physical pain.
Alice, 40, had recendy undergone cancer surgery and radiation. However, she continued to have persistent pain in her upper back. Because doctors could not identify the problem, she decided to try guided imagery with Dr. Rossman. First, he asked her to relax and imagine herself at some beautiful place. Alice saw herself on a beach surrounded by cliffs. Next, she was invited to have a dialogue with an imaginary "inner advisor. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
See book keywords and concepts |  Imagery also alleviates emotional strain and reduces physical pain while altering the course of disease and improving the individual's outlook on his or her illness.
As a cardiologist, I rarely treat cases of cancer. However, some cancer patients have approached me, requesting that I participate in their healing. In addition to the emotional support that I can give, I recommend a broad nutritional approach that includes the elimination from the diet of long-chain fatty acids, which are found in animal protein and dairy products. Long-chain fatty acids are great fuel for cancer cells. |
Ken Wilber
See book keywords and concepts |  It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.
So, in brief, we do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. |
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