John E. Sarno is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation

, MD, (1923-) 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.

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. While some in mainstream medicine consider his approach controversial, at 83 years of age he is still seeing patients.

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

Dr. John E. Sarno reveals how most painful conditions are rooted in unexpressed emotions, and how to cure these disorders without drugs, therapy, or surgery. According to Dr. Sarno, most pain is a psychogenic expression of unconscious rage, the brains way of distracting you from repressed feelings. By changing the treatment focus from the body to the mind, he argues that pain can be abolished simply by understanding its purpose. This book reveals how emotions stimulate the brain to produce physical symptoms, describes these emotionally induced ailments, and offers a therapeutic program.