Pain Reprocessing Therapy Practitioner
Pain Reprocessing Therapy Resources
Tame the Beast
Prof. Lorimer Moseley on how persistent pain is learned and how to retrain it.
How Stress Creates Pain Pathways
Dr. Howard Schubiner on how stress creates learned nerve pathways of pain.
Alan Gordon: Pain Reprocessing Therapy and How Pain Psychology Can Heal Chronic Pain
Alan Gordon, creator of Pain Reprocessing Therapy, with Dr. Mark Lumley on how emotions and the brain drive chronic pain.
Dr. David Clarke: Stress Illness, IBS, and Chronic Dizziness
Dr. David Clarke explains how stress and emotions can cause digestive problems, IBS, and dizziness.
Changing Your Mind: Chronic Pain and The Brain
Vince Vaughn shares his recovery from chronic pain.
Books & Articles
Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression by Howard Schubiner, MD (2026): a step-by-step mind-body program for healing chronic pain.
Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno, MD: the classic on how stress and emotions drive back pain.
The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich: a hopeful, personal story of healing from chronic pain through Dr. John Sarno's mindbody work.
The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv: the book behind Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
The Mindbody Prescription by John E. Sarno, MD: on how many painful conditions are rooted in repressed emotions.
Think Away Your Pain by David Schechter, MD: a clear, practical guide to how thoughts and feelings rewire chronic pain, from a former patient of Dr. John Sarno.
Articles
How therapy, not pills, can nix chronic pain and change the brain (CU Boulder Today): Summary of the landmark PRT study.
Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Chronic Back Pain (JAMA Psychiatry, 2021): the full research paper.
Emotional awareness and expression training improves irritable bowel syndrome (Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 2017): processing emotions and stress reduced IBS symptoms.
Emotional awareness and expression therapy, CBT, and education for fibromyalgia (Pain, 2017): an emotion-focused approach to widespread pain.
Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy vs CBT for Chronic Pain in Older Veterans (JAMA Network Open, 2024): emotion-focused therapy outperformed CBT for chronic pain.
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