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John Sarno, M.D., An American Hero

By David Hanscom — 2017

Dr. John Sarno, a pioneer in mind-body medicine, emphasized the age-old concept that anxiety and mood have a significant impact on the treatment of chronic disease, including pain. His landmark best-seller, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, enabled many patients to become free of pain after “mainstream medicine” failed to help. Yet his ideas were not widely adopted by the medical profession. Now more than ever, they need to be.

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

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