Moorlock reviewed Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno
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1 star
Sarno has one of these pet theories that he's so excited about that he's convinced it explains everything. Much of the book is a run-down of a long list of diseases and disorders that can now be subsumed under the "Tension Myositis Syndrome" diagnosis he's invented, and of a large variety of treatments for these diseases and disorders that are now obsolete thanks to his talking cure, which mostly consists of convincing patients that they have TMS. If you come to have the same faith in TMS that Sarno has, you will be healed, apparently. Throw down your crutches and believe.
Sarno's evidence for his theory is weak (or at least the evidence he shares with us in this book): anecdotes and hunches for the most part. The logical leaps he asks us to take in order to dismiss alternate hypotheses and diagnoses are enormous. But faith healing will always …
Sarno has one of these pet theories that he's so excited about that he's convinced it explains everything. Much of the book is a run-down of a long list of diseases and disorders that can now be subsumed under the "Tension Myositis Syndrome" diagnosis he's invented, and of a large variety of treatments for these diseases and disorders that are now obsolete thanks to his talking cure, which mostly consists of convincing patients that they have TMS. If you come to have the same faith in TMS that Sarno has, you will be healed, apparently. Throw down your crutches and believe.
Sarno's evidence for his theory is weak (or at least the evidence he shares with us in this book): anecdotes and hunches for the most part. The logical leaps he asks us to take in order to dismiss alternate hypotheses and diagnoses are enormous. But faith healing will always be popular, and may sometimes even be effective, so I wish you the best of luck in trying to swallow this.