research

Ever since I got involved in the TMS universe, I've been a little murky on how much the "placebo effect" contributes to healing vs. actually releasing/ labeling/ acknowledging difficult emotions. I'm still not totally clear on it to be honest, but I guess I've come to the following question on...

I ran into this and thought some here would find this browser add-on helpful in our effort to access --legally, research often only found behind "paywalls." It also aids requests for a copy from the author. Here is an article about this in Techdirt...

A quandary. I really feel I have few repressed emotions left! I have been working on this stuff for years and years and continue with this ‘digging’, plus journaling current stressors. Yet still I have pain. Neither is it moving around since I started the SEP. I am really quite stumped...

Thought I'd share this research article with you. It adds to what we already know from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study that our early experiences with caregivers effects us throughout our lifetime. May shed some light on why it takes some of us longer to recover from TMS and TMS...

This study looks at married couples and how they deal with conflict. Those that get angry end up with cardiovascular problems, while those that repress their emotions (withdraw or "stonewall") end up with musculo-skeletal problems. This was certainly true for me as someone who withdraws from...

This is a re-post of an article that avik found. Many thanks! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1520590/

Interesting study moves closer to supporting psychophysiological cause of back pain. Summary of study: Insomnia can predict the appearance of back pain in adults, researchers suggest. Back pain is a very common ailment: Between 60% to 80% of the adult population will suffer from it at some...

A few months ago researching pain relief methods I came across Hyperbaric Oxygen chambers(I considered building one myself and there are some great tutorials on-line). I have never tried one but some have claimed incredible benefits. Its a newspaper anecdotal example but its interesting >>...

In the following post, Dr. David Clarke brought up a point that I wanted to respond to: http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/amazon-sales-data-for-books-about-tms.5091/#post-30960 My response gets pretty technical and if people reply it could get even more technical, so I thought it would be a...

Hi, I just purchased The Divided Mind, & am enjoying reading it. I just finished the Chronic Pain Syndromes: A Modern Plague section when I remembered that in Healing Back Pain, Dr. Sarno referenced research where a majority of a group had structural abnormalities but did not experience any...

During the call in group earlier tonight, a 2013 article TMS author by James Alexander, PhD came up. In it, Dr. Alexander presents a theory of how EMDR works from the perspective of brain science. In particular, he uses the idea of memory reconsolidation to explain the effectiveness of EMDR...

Edward Shorter comes up occasionally in TMS books as, essentially the historian of TMS. Both Dr. Sarno and Dr. Schubiner refer to his book about the history of TMS in their own books. He is the Jason A. Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He's come out...

Note:this post is for people who are curious about some of the science and history of science behind TMS. It's quite technical and "wonky." If your only interest is on healing, other threads on this forum may do a better job of getting better. Knowledge may be the penicillin of TMS, but the...

Hi....I just wrote my story but lost it to who knows where......havent energy or arm power to retype at present. Ive been following a prog by Ashok Gupta...the idea being that the amygdala is always on high alert when cfs and fibromyalgia are present ......and all the symptoms come from this...