The MindBody Workbook

This is a structured approach to figuring out the psychological causes for your pain. It really works.

What more can I say, I have resumed all activities and new ones to boot. I never consider my back before trying something anymore. This has been a complete about turn.

JG


A Chiropractor's Perspective   April 10, 2001
d 3 PO (Los Angeles, CA USA)
37 out of 39 found this review helpful

"I'm a chiropractor and interested in the totality of healing--mechanical, chemical, and psychological. I find that Dr. Schechter's 'MindBody Workbook' is unique in that in provides a simple, easy to follow, format for my patients to focus their energies on healing emotionally. The workbook is concise and to the point. The questions provide a starting point for journalling and gently guide the patient to deeper levels of emotional insight.

In my experience, and the research supports this, the emotional healing greatly enhances the structural and chemical healing. It all works together. This helps my treatments be more effective.

Compared to even a single psychotherapy session, the price is a bargain. I highly recommend the book for psychological insight and emotional healing."

Gerald Edwards, D.C., Q.M.E. Los Angeles


Disappointed   February 11, 2001
40 out of 49 found this review helpful

After reading all the great reviews, I must say that I was disappointed with this book. You can get the same effect by just writing in a diary every day about how you feel about the pain, what it prevents you from doing, how others responded to you, etc. I also thought it was overpriced. I returned it.


Dr. Schechter Makes the Difference. What a Relief!   April 15, 2000
Lori Landau, MFT (Woodland Hills, California)
41 out of 46 found this review helpful

I am inspired by Dr. Schechter's devotion to helping those who suffer from chronic physical discomfort.

Dr. Schechter has taken the Mindbody wisdom we are all getting familiar with and developed a step by step approach to assist anyone wanting to increase their physical and emotional sense of well being. The workbook is wonderful, full of information and great advice! It is essentially a guided journal and done in such a way that I often felt, in reading it, that Dr. Schechter was sitting and talking directly with me. His conversational style is personable, supportive, constructive and well paced.

The importance of developing ways to work with our growing knowledge of the mindbody connection cannot be underestimated. Dr. Schechter has made an invaluable contribution by writing The Mindbody Workbook.

I recommend this book for anyone who tends to experience physical symtoms in reaction to life stressors. I also recommend this book to therapists who might want to recommend journaling to clients, as a way of helping them track and respond to their own emotions.


Help for chronic pain sufferers is here   February 10, 2000
L. M. Shih (Santa Clara, CA)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful

Having read David Schechter's book, The MindBody Workbook, I can say that Dr. Schechter has developed a novel and low risk approach to the treatment of a problem that has confounded modern medicine.

The Western approach to medicine and healing is based in science and hard evidence. In essence: what we cannot measure, we do not accept. Dr. Schechter's approach is more integrative in its approach to pain and the fact that pain is perceived in the mind.

A person's perception of pain is not readily measureable. The mind has many secrets yet to be revealed. By putting the reader into a higher state of awareness with their own feelings and emotions, Dr. Schechter has hit on a novel treatment that has zero side effects and could be revolutionary in its simplicity and elegance to the treatment of chronic pain.

I highly recommned this workbook to all those in pain who have not found relief from their physicians. You have nothing to lose but your pain.

Sincerely,

L. Mason Shih, MD Family Practice Los Angeles, CA.