The Divided Mind

By: John E. Sarno

Narrated by: Paul Hecht, James Boles

The Divided Mind is the crowning achievement of Dr. John E. Sarno's long and successful career as a groundbreaking medical pioneer. While his earlier books dealt almost exclusively with musculoskeletal pain disorders, here Dr. Sarno addresses the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mind-body) disorders. In Dr. Sarno's view, the crucial interaction between the reasonable, rational, ethical, moral conscious mind and the repressed feelings of emotional pain, hurt, sadness, and anger characteristic of the unconscious mind is the basis for many mind-body disorders.

The Divided Mind traces the history of psychosomatic medicine, including Freud's crucial role as well as his failures. Most important, it describes the psychology of the human condition that is responsible for the broad range of psychosomatic illness. Dr. Sarno believes that the failure of medicine's practitioners to recognize and appropriately treat mind-body disorders has produced public health and economic problems of major proportions in the United States. One of the most interesting and important aspects of psychosomatic phenomena is the fact that knowledge and awareness of the process clearly have healing powers.

©2006 John E. Sarno, M.D. (P)2006 Audio Evolution, LLC

Critic reviews

"Dr. Sarno brilliantly explores the chasm between the conscious and unconscious minds, where psychosomatic ailments originate." (Mehmet Oz, M.D., co-author of You: The Owner's Manual)

Medical people need to read this

As a doctor, I found Dr Sarno's work very thought provoking. I agreed with most of his supportive information. He is absolutely correct in saying that much of patients' symptoms have a psychological basis. The book is also very encouraging. It reports the power of people to heal themselves when the realize the psychological causes. This book is strongly recommended to all health care professionals and those suffering from chronic pain.

Mindblowing!

A must-read for anyone that has a brain … the owners manual that answers the question: how does this thing work? Helps you learn to think of “mindbody” as a single thing. Bringing new understanding to a phrase popularized in the sixties … each one of us needs to “get our head together,” to be free!

healing after 15 years!! Thank you Dr. Sarno!!

Thank you so much for all of your work, after 15 years I have learned to connect my spasms with the emotion that I'm feeling

Review

The best part of the whole listening experience is the interview with Dr. Sarno at the end. I recommend it for that reason alone.

Great book!

I felt the author’s genuine concern for mankind and our ability to process the mind-body connection!