Pain, fatigue, and sickness symptoms continue to be some of the most mysterious and hard to treat conditions in sufferers of all ages. Sigmund Freud himself began his work addressing the roots of these conditions, which later became the bedrock of psychoanalysis. Over 100 years later, the medical and psychological landscapes continue to wrestle with chronic pain conditions. 

In the 1970s, Dr. John Sarno recognized that the origins of back pain were not structural, but instead rooted in the unexpressed emotional reservoir that individuals carry within them. He began treating individuals from a psychological perspective and watched as peoples’ lives were transformed. Now there is a burgeoning field of researchers and healers addressing the epidemic of pain with expertise in the neuroscience of trauma and learned patterns of communication between the brain and body.