Tag: tms
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What is TMS?
Read more: What is TMS?Psychologist Dr. Eric Sherman talks about treating chronic pain with talk therapy at Where the Client Is: I have received photos from former patients in which they are break dancing, sky diving, or performing yoga contortions worthy of Cirque du Soleil. All of them had been advised to undergo surgery to correct disc herniations, the…
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Dealing with Chronic Pain
Read more: Dealing with Chronic PainA new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic…
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Treating Chronic Pain
Read more: Treating Chronic PainBack at Where the Client Is, a new interview with psychoanalyst Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD about treating pain the Dr. John Sarno way: By getting at underlying, unfelt emotion. Not mainstream at the moment, but look out. (The interview is intended for therapists, but is still readable.) Key: For people who have great difficulty being…