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 enlarge | Author: John E. Sarno
Publisher: Warner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $13.99
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Rating:  359 reviews
Sales Rank: 1559
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0446392308
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.564
EAN: 9780446392303
ASIN: 0446392308
Publication Date: February 1, 1991
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 Life changing book. September 7, 2007
N. Morris (California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is incredible and John Sarno really explains his practice well. The whole theory is fascinating and can be life changing if you allow it. I highly recommend this book especially if you have "tried everything" for your back pain and only get temporary relief.
A MONEY-BACK GAURANTEE... September 3, 2007
S. Colt (GA , USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
...would be one sure way to silence any detractors. It worked for me and has obviously worked for others. It will obviously not work for everyone, particularly those with actual physical disorders. The hour or two it takes to read this book and the $15 to purchase it for the possible relief of chronic back pain? I'd say it's worth the risk. Or you could go throw your cash at a pseudo-doctor who has no vested interest in your getting well. (When is the last time you turned away an opportunity to increase your income?)
I am amazed! August 31, 2007
Kathy Palla
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After over 20 years of pain in my neck from a double whiplash, and then back issues the past 3 months attributed to a herniated disc, within 2 weeks after reading the book and doing some relaxation techniques found in Somatics, I have my life back! No joke! I don't take this lightly at all. I like to think I am aware of the different things out there, but this took me totally off guard..But I am grateful. I went to 4 drs for my back in the past 3 months and I got 3 totally different opinions. One thing they were in agreement was to 'be careful', 'don't bend at the waist' don't do this, don't do that...I left feeling so depressed I wanted to cry. I'm only 46 years old, an avid biker and hiker, not to mention I love to mow our 2 acres, and they're telling me to live my life in a bubble...well I have a carefree spirit and I couldn't imagine that kind of life. Maybe I'll slow down when I'm 85 but I'm not ready yet. This book was recommended to me from my physical therapist and I am so grateful to him. It is worth your time and money. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by Sarno is the book that was initially recommended to me (I misread my paper and ordered this book instead) so that's what I would recommend as well if you're only going to buy one book... however I got excellant results with the information in this book..
 Very Dangerous....potential benefits of book less than Risk August 26, 2007
Joe Lieberman
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
Ordinarilly, I would never give even a poorly written book one star. And although this book is fairly well written, I would actually give it negative stars if at all possible. Dr Sarno makes the mistake of strongly suggesting that virtually all back and joint disorders are the result of mind driven oxygen deprivation...resulting from stress. This, while true for many, is also likely equally untrue for many more. However, if you follow his advice and try to physically perform as though your ailments were imaginary, as he seems to suggest, you could very very possibly turn an already damaging condition into a crippling one. If, for example, you decide to lift heavy objects like you used to, operating under the premise that you shouldn't give in to the "illusion of injury" that your mind is creating, then you could very well rupture discs, tear weak ligaments etc....
pure snake oil August 20, 2007
Meghan McCarthy (NY)
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been a back/nerve pain sufferer for two years plus. I've had the MRIs, the EMGs, the NCVs, etc. I've done physical therapy. I'm on medication. I've done the PT exercises. I've avoided straining my back. But I'm not better. What's going on? Oh joy! A cure! My brain has repressed emotions and to avoid these terrible emotions it has decided to create this back pain, as a way of avoidance... or so says Dr. Sarno. Perhaps if I could only tell my brain to cut it out then I'll be miraculously cured! Oh thank you Dr. Sarno!
It turns out I have small fiber neuropathy, which is tested and proven via skin biopsy. Neuropathy is nerve damage. Nerve damage = pain, numbness, muscle aches, etc. If I only read this doctor's book and left it at that I'd STILL be in pain AND be depressed and MORE upset. That would be the nail in the coffin.
Half of this man's book consists of a long-winded argument in favor of his theory. A good book for the buying public should not take up half its space trying to prove something to the reader. Red flag there! Dr. Sarno says that physical therapy is a waste of time and in fact any treatment (other than his own!) is a waste of time. Sounds like he's trying to sell more books and get people to go to his seminar if you ask me. He claims that PT is a placebo. Well, if that argument is true then couldn't we also say that HIS treatment is a placebo? And what about this "brain" argument--that the brain is the real culprit here. Well, isn't the brain the culprit of every action the body makes? How else do you feel pain? The brain. So his reasoning is silly.
A doctor who is telling back pain sufferers and a person with ANY injury (yes, his book talks about other injuries and how they ALL -surprise, surprise--are caused by his bunk syndrome... and also mentions cancer as being partially mental) to IGNORE the pain and go run that 5K and lift those weights and slouch in the chair and go help a friend move, can be dangerous--and I'm not just talking about physically but psychologically.
I won't go on, though I'm tempted to. I will conclude with this: You know those big "churches" with the preachers hooting in front of a microphone to a crowd of thousands singing "hallelujah's" and touching blind folks' foreheads and ladies with canes and men moaning because of their pain? Yeah. I think his philosophy is the same kind of thing.
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