Write Your Way Out of Chronic Pain

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Chronic pain is at an epidemic level, affecting about a third of the adult population. In adolescents, the number of in-patient admissions rose 831 percent over a seven-year period. The reason? Many of these patients are treated for acute pain, when they are really … Read More

Unhooking from the Train

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Neurophysiological Disorder? The multiple manifestations of the Neurophysiologic Disorder (NPD) endlessly fascinates me. With engagement of the principles that treat it, the improvement in my patients’ quality of life is consistent and frequently dramatic. The foundation of success continues to be the writing exercises. I don’t know the reasons why it is … Read More

Video 16/19: “White Bears”

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I talk about how the suppression of negative thoughts associated with chronic pain can really fire up the nervous system.  Dr. Daniel Wegner from Harvard published an elegant paper in 1987 demonstratng the impossibity of trying to suppress thoughts. I’ve talked about it before in White Bears and ANTS.   BF

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