John E. Sarno

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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 0-446-39230-8) and The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (ISBN 0-446-67515-6). 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. [1]

In April, 2006, his latest book, The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (ISBN 0-06-085178-3) was published, addressing the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders, and describing the history of psychosomatic medicine.

[edit] Trivia

• On an October 21 2006 repeat airing of his interview with Howie Mandel, Howard Stern credited Sarno with "curing" him on of his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder after reading one of his books. Stern frequently mentions Dr. Sarno on his radio show.

[edit] External links

• John Sarno's homepage
• Dr. Sarno's treatment
• online forum
• Dr. Sarno's Book: Mind Over Back Pain, 1984
• Dr. Sarno's Book: Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, 1991
• Dr. Sarno's Book: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain, 1998
• Dr. Sarno's Book: The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders, 2006
• ABC 20/20 segment and interview with Dr. Sarno by John Stossel, 1999