The Divided Mind - The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (1 of 5)

A Note from zenny7: Personally, I am still not too sure how much Dr. Sarno understands that the Mind is NOT the brain. The brain acts as the Minds receptor. Aside from this, the information he gives in his book and in this interview is good stuff, so I hope you enjoy what he has to say.

"Dr. Sarno brilliantly explores the chasm between the conscious and unconscious minds, where psychosomatic ailments originate." (Mehmet Oz, M.D., co-author of You: The Owner's Manual)

Publisher's Summary
The Divided Mind is the crowning achievement of Dr. John E. Sarno's long and successful career as a groundbreaking medical pioneer. While his earlier books dealt almost exclusively with musculoskeletal pain disorders, here Dr. Sarno addresses the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mind-body) disorders. In Dr. Sarno's view, the crucial interaction between the reasonable, rational, ethical, moral conscious mind and the repressed feelings of emotional pain, hurt, sadness, and anger characteristic of the unconscious mind is the basis for many mind-body disorders.

The Divided Mind traces the history of psychosomatic medicine, including Freud's crucial role as well as his failures. Most important, it describes the psychology of the human condition that is responsible for the broad range of psychosomatic illness. Dr. Sarno believes that the failure of medicine's practitioners to recognize and appropriately treat mind-body disorders has produced public health and economic problems of major proportions in the United States. One of the most interesting and important aspects of psychosomatic phenomena is the fact that knowledge and awareness of the process clearly have healing powers.

"As far as Dr Sarno and his colleagues are concerned, fibromyalgia is a severe form of TMS, and is best treated like any other form of TMS, i.e. by providing knowledge and understanding of the true source of the pain. The core of this treatment is a lecture presentation in which Dr. Sarno (or a colleague) leads the patients through a process of realisation of the relationship between emotions and physical symptoms and explains to them the importance of understanding what is going on as the basis for curing many common pain syndromes."

John E. Sarno, M.D. is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine. He has been practicing medicine since 1950. Dr. Sarno is the acclaimed author of Mind Over Back Pain, the #1 New York Times bestseller Healing Back Pain, and the bestselling The Mindbody Prescription. Dr. Sarno lives in New York.

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[MorrisIrvine]

way to fucking boring mate. if you want to open peooples eyes to the truth of the mind and the universe then you need to do it in a visually radical way like i do with my films PSYCHE PROBE, PARALYSIS OF THE MIND and COSMOSIS (watch them on my channel now)

[zenny7]

Listen, you're a good guy and I have nothing against you or what you are doing. However, ADVERTISING your videos in my comments rather than sincerely responding to my videos isn't cool. After viewing some of your vids, I can't help but think to myself that you are treating this as some big joke, or perhaps that is just your style. These vids may be boring to you, or boring to the audience you're seeking to please, but to me and others, these videos are informative and interesting. Thank you.

[FibromyalgiaPain]

Ahum. "my videos"? You just copied the videos that I made and uploaded. No big deal, but if credit must go to someone, it's dr. Sarno and the interviewer.

I guess being a 'sincere "seeker" of the truth' and living in lies can exist at the same time. :)

Btw, have you listened to some of Jiddu Krishnamurti? He's great.

[zenny7]

I wrote "my videos" because this guy posted his "advertisements" on ALL of the videos that I uploaded to my channel. I'm not taking credit for them and you're right, credit goes to Dr. Sarno and the interviewer, however I do give you credit for uploading it to YouTube, thanks! As far as your comment mocking my sincerity and accusing me of being a liar, a simple mistake, no biggie.

[SubConCrusher]

Very Cool !

[hrgaland]

@zenny7 nice, cool answer. great job girl!

[michalchik]

The brain is not the minds receptor it is the minds creator. There is no mind without an active brain. Suppress the brain and the mind stops, Bring back brain activity and the mind picks up where it left off. Any aspect of the mind that anyone has ever mention has a known anatomical correlate, even identity, will, motivation, morality, consciousness and conscience. The brain is the most marvelously complex structure in the universe and it creates you.

[jjchia58]

The mind and body are one and one affects the other. I wish more doctors in all fields realized this. I am pleased that Dr. Sarno has helped so many people, because although I agree with him I do not think he has all of the psychological information to go far enough. For example, what is behind the rage?

[PADRAEG]

FASTASTIC analysis of much illness. Dr Sarno cured my severe back aches, now is applying that strategy to other illnesses, perhaps reaching too far, but this is a must read!

[MindofaJedi]

I agree , I break out when I am under stress . It sucks , if I have a job interview ,I will get a pimple on my face . Then I can go a year without a breakout . It's very frustrating . I also had a back injury wrestling years ago , sometimes when my girlfriend starts bitching at me , it will start to hurt again . I might be tensing up , I just know it happens . The original injury was real , but these "flare ups " last only minutes while I am upset .

[FibromyalgiaPain]

I didn't mean to offend when I talked about 'living in lies', I see this as a state that almost all people are continuously living in (including me), as we are stuck in the limitations of knowledge. The 'voice of knowledge' is the liar, not you.

We conversed on pm and all is ok.

[RocknRollAllNiteLong]

this is profound, a man at the pinnacle of his life sharing his wisdom, great upload