TMS in fiction...and the new TMS novel: Magic On The Mountain

Hi all

I was pretty active on the forum a while ago, but have been busy recently writing books and working as a mind body coach. Here's the link to my original success story post: https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/recovery-from-back-pain-foot-pain-stomach-pain-intolerances-possible-severe-autoimmune-disease.26991/ (Recovery from back pain, foot pain, stomach pain, intolerances, possible severe autoimmune disease)

That post sort of grew into my recovery memoir The Mind Solution: Healing TMS Pain with Doctor Sarno, which Steve Ozanich was kind enough to write the foreword to.

Anyway, I have recently written a new book about TMS, and this one is a novel. Psychoanalysis – a kind of precursor to the TMS paradigm – became a cultural movement, which inspired plenty of films (several of them by Hitchcock), artworks and novels. To my knowledge, there's only a few TMS novels, including Painless, my previous novel Ego's Odyssey (which addressed plenty of other themes as well) and my latest release, Magic On The Mountain. As the subtitle indicates, it is a novel about TMS and mindbody healing and is inspired by Thomas Mann's classic novel The Magic Mountain, the closest 20th century literary fiction came to a 'TMS novel', for various reasons, not least because the protagonist Hans Castorp is presented as suffering from a psychosomatic ailment. I cannot prove it, but I wonder if Dr. Sarno with his noted interests in history and literature (the plays of Shakespeare) was a fan of Thomas Mann's magnum opus?

Magic On The Mountain is about a young man with progressively worsening TMS who goes on holiday to a luxury medical spa hotel in Davos, Switzerland, winds up getting diagnosed and experiences progressively worsening symptoms...until he discovers Dr. Sarno's Healing Back Pain. You can find a brief sample (currently free) at the following link: https://www.robertensor.com/post/ma...ing-and-davos-platz-inspired-by-thomas-mann-s

Below is the book cover.