Howard Schubiner
Howard Schubiner, MD, is an internist at Providence Hospital and a professor at Michigan State University. He’s the author of Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and coauthor of Hidden From View.
Contributed by Howard Schubiner
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Interrupting the Reign of Pain: Therapy Tools to Eliminate Chronic Pain
Typically, physical and psychological pain are treated separately, even when they’re deeply intertwined. Nearly half of all therapy clients suffer from chronic physical pain, which often has no clear medical cause, including back and neck pain, headaches, and fibromyalgia. We now know that all pain is constructed by the brain’s alarm mechanism, which can be activated by either physical injury or perceived emotional threat. In this recording, you’ll learn tools to simultaneously address physical and emotional pain in your work with clients. You’ll explore how to:
Explain how the brain’s predictive coding mechanisms generate and moderate the experience of physical pain, and avoid the trap of clients hearing it as “it’s all in your head”
Teach clients how to reverse rather than cope with chronic brain-induced pain using pain reprocessing therapy
Implement Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, which has been found to be more effective than standard psychotherapeutic treatment
Understand cutting-edge research on chronic back pain, and determine if your client has psycho-physiologic-induced pain
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IFS and Chronic Pain
Listening to Inner Parts that Hold the Hurt
Chronic Pain Reconsidered
A New Role for Therapists
Only one percent of patients suffering from acute back pain have a significant structural abnormality in their back, and a remarkably low percentage of back surgeries are successful. A physician inspired by the pioneering work of physician John Sarno describes his journey to develop a radical alternative to standard medical interventions with chronic pain. Read More