Resources

Here are some resources that you may find helpful:

• Books by John Sarno, M.D.
  • Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (1991)
  • The Mind-Body Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (1999)
  • The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mind-Body Disorders (2007)
• Books by Others, Based on Sarno's Work
  • Mind Your Body: A Revolutionary Program to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety (2025) by Nicole Sachs
  • Crushing Doubt: An Advanced System for Mind-Body Pain and Symptom Relief (2025) by Dan Ratner
  • The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain (2021) by Alan Gordon
  • They Can't Find Anything Wrong!: 7 Keys to Understanding, Treating, and Healing Stress Illness (2007) by David Clarke, M.D.
  • Pathways to Pain Relief (2013) by Frances Sommer Anderson and Eric Sherman
  • Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety and Depression (2026) by Howard Schubiner, M.D.
  • Unlearn Your Pain Workbook: A Self-Guided Process to Reprogram Your Brain, third edition (2026) by Howard Schubiner, M.D.
  • Think Away Your Pain: Your Brain Is The Solution To Your Pain (2014) by David Schechter
  • Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain (2012) by David Hanscom, M.D.
  • The Mind-Body Workbook: A 30-Day Program of Insight and Awareness for Back Pain and Other Disorders (1999) by David Schechter
  • The Mind-Body Workbook Volume 2: 30 Days of Guided Journaling and Affirmations for Chronic Pain, Stress, and Other Disorders (2023) by David Schechter and Justin Barker
• Books for Clinicians
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders: Trauma Informed, Interprofessional Diagnosis and Treatment (2019) by David Clarke, Howard Schubiner, Mags Clark-Smith, and Allan Abbass
  • Hidden From View: A Clinician's Guide to Psychophysiologic Disorders (2018) by A. Abbass and H. Schubiner
  • A Diagnostic Guide for Psychophysiologic Disorders (2022) by D. Clarke, D. Schechter, and H. Schubiner
• Websites
  • The TMS Wiki — discussion forum, provider directory, video links, and a structured educational program.
  • The Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms, including its bibliography of research.
• Self-Help
  • Self-help video course
  • Curable smartphone app
  • Digestible smartphone app (for IBS)
• Videos
  • 20/20 segment from 1999 about John Sarno's work
  • Pain Science Paradigm Shift (7-minute video)
  • All The Rage, a documentary about John Sarno
  • This Might Hurt, a documentary about Dr. Howard Schubiner's work
  • Pain Brain, a documentary about Pain Reprocessing Therapy
  • Episode of "The Doctors," showing a teenager cured of pain
  • "Breakthrough With Healing Chronic Pain", a Howard Schubiner lecture
  • TMS Roundtable videos
  • Dr. Sarno's lecture
  • A humorous talk explaining how all pain originates in the brain
  • The Rubber Arm Test: how the brain can be fooled into producing pain
  • "Understanding Pain in Less Than Five Minutes"
  • The role stress plays and the creation of learned nerve pathways
  • Neural Pathway Pain, a whiteboard video
  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) demonstration
  • Anxiety regulation to reduce chronic pain using PRT