John E. Sarno

John E. Sarno, MD, (1923-) is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and attending physician at the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center. His two most well-known books are Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (ISBN 0446392308) and The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (ISBN 0446675156). He pioneered the diagnosis of tension myositis syndrome (TMS) as a mindbody disorder causing chronic back, neck and limb pain in patients for which standard medical treatments were not working, and has treated over ten thousand of his patients at the Rusk Institute for over three decades by educating them on his beliefs in a psychological and emotional basis to their pain. ^*

In April, 2006, his latest book, The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (ISBN 0060851783) was published, addressing the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders, and describing the history of psychosomatic medicine. While some in mainstream medicine consider his approach controversial, at 83 years of age he is still seeing patients.

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