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The migration of memes out of psychological theories into the popular or folk culture, in light of the methodological challenges
This question [should psychosomatically-caused hypertension be treated differently] has been the subject of virtually no research and is not even on the radarscope of researchers, probably because medical researchers are not interested in psychology and research psychologists are not interested in antihypertensive medic....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 214
"In our society the virtues of self-reliance and independence are so highly valued that many people feel a great deal of shame and humiliation at the idea of having to be taken care of," wrote one physician in his state medical journal in 1963. His topic was not welfare or taxes, but pain management, cancer care, and t....
Wailoo, Keith, "Pain: a political history", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 54
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History of this as per Van Der Kolk. The origin of the term hysterical referring to uterus.
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This may belong in "Psychological Theories...." Dr. Sarno and TMS
[TMS; tension myositis syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux, peptic ulcer, esophagospasm, hiatus hernia, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colitis, tension headache, migraine headache, frequent urination, most cases of prostatitis and sexual dysfunction, tinnitus][ Most psychosomatic illnesses are mediated through the symp....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 14-5
Health care in America is in a state of crisis....Over six million Americans suffering from the mysterious and excruciatingly painful ailment called "fibromyalgia" are being treated by an army of self-minted specialists, not one of whom has a clue as to what causes the disorder. [Continues to mention gastric reflux and....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 1
[TMS = tension myositis syndrome, a malady invented by Sarno] Psychosomatic disorders fall into two categories: 1. Those disorders that are directly induced by unconscious emotions, such as the pain problems (TMS) and common gastrointestinal conditions including reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, skin di....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 4
The conflict we are seeing in contemporary humans is a brain-mind in transition, not fully governed by intelligence, and still under the influence of primitive, childish impulses, desires, and dicta. These negative attributes are what might be called the dregs of evolution, and their social-political and medical realit....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 59-60
The enormity of this miscarriage of medical practice may be compared to what would exist if medicine refused to acknowledge the existence of bacteria and viruses. Perhaps the most heinous manifestation of this scientific medievalism has been the elimination of the term psychosomatic from recent editions of [DSM]....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 3
Abner [a patient] concluded that his symptoms could only represent a new outbreak of psychosomatic back pain despite what doctors and family were telling him. His realization came from the recognition that he was entirely free of pain during sexual activites (which for him often verged on the acrobatic). [This again is....
Sarno, J. E., "The Divided Mind: The epidemic of mindbody disorders", Harper, 2006, 163
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How the idea of learned motivations arose from the behaviorist perspective. Modern viewpoints of intrinsic motivations (instincts) as a counter-theory.
[Physician Stephen Brena, based on experience running a pain clinic in Atlanta in the early 70s:] ...Brena began writing about a new problem he called the "learned pain syndrome" and described many people at his clinic as exhibiting a kind of "learned helplessness." [Fordyce came to similar ideas at about that same time....
Wailoo, Keith, "Pain: a political history", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 96
"Listen without anger to the patient's undue complaints and gain his confidence," Albronda urged. But also "understand that unwise probing, injecting, massaging...in trying to relieve pain that is psychically perpetuated serves to fix the neurosis and lessen the chances for cure." [Albronda, "Psychological Aspects of P....
Wailoo, Keith, "Pain: a political history", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 55
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e.g., the concepts of "consciousness," "will," and "emotion," "motivation," learning.
[The literature on CNS circuits involved with pain sometimes refer to "affective," "emotional," and other such constructs. Some brain structure is characterized as "affective," etc., and so activation of this structure implies a link to "affective" processes. Although such characterization is based on a body of varied....
Hangartner, Ross, "Personal note", Anon, 2015
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