The Unconscious Connection by Jerry E. Wesch, Ph.D. Conscious Choice, February 2000 John E. Sarno, M.D., professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine, New York University School of Medicine, has been treating pain for many years. These include such ailments as gastrointestinal disorders, circulatory problems, headache, allergies, fibromyalgia, infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, and hives.
Symptoms can manifest in any body system but are most often focused around previous injuries.
Like a complex and painful smoke screen, the body takes the heat for hidden unacceptable emotional loads. He particularly targets unconscious rage, shame, and emotional trauma from psychological and emotional wounds that threaten to overwhelm our psychological equilibrium. These feelings are protected from conscious awareness by the use of pain and bodily symptoms as a distraction. Understanding and awareness undoes the unconscious secret. His model is not news.