Here I review the understanding put forward in the book The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno as long ago as 2006. Doctor Sarno was one of the first medical doctors to embrace the idea of psychosomatic medicine which he dubbed mind body disorder to avoid the negative connotation that psychosomatic was all in your head.

We now find many common conditions relate to what he referred to as TMS or Tension myoneural syndrome commonly expressed as chronic fatigue syndrome or Fibromyalgia but embracing many medically unexplained symptoms
00:00 Sarno's revolutionary ideas of psycho-somatic (mindbody) medicine
02:45 The divided mind - pain and emotional centres in the brain are closely linked
04:20 Unconscious emotions from early childhood repressed by personality traits of goodism, perfectionism as unacceptable
06:52 My story of unconscious repression of rage/ anger or rebellion plus guilt, fear or grief
09:25 The need for control - narcissism and the dismay when illness, divorce, etc strikes
12:16 past & present experience accumulate to speak for you - the symptom imperative
14:42 Biomedical medicine treats the body symptoms only
15:11 Other recommended books - including mine The Scar that won't Heal, The Hidden Psychology of Pain
16:29 Mainstream medicine slowly taking on this view. Accept the brain creates pain and deal with underlying emotions

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