John Sarno is the author and his book also quickly fixed a problem I had with wrist and arm pain that started out-of-the blue. I also used his techniques to im

John Sarno is the author and his book also quickly fixed a problem I had with wrist and arm pain that started out-of-the blue. I also used his techniques to improve some chronic neck, back, knee and hip pains but it was not as effective. One caveat: Sarno was an MD who specialized in Rehabilitation Medicine and not a psychiatrist or psychologist. If you read his books you do not have to buy his Freudian explanation of phantom pain as repressed rage, the techniques will still work. He also deserves credit for reintroducing the concept of psychosomatic illnesses or pains in modern medicine (his mind-body connection) which is dismissed as unscientific because it can't be tested using the so-called "gold standard" of medical proof; the randomized, double-blind, control-group treatment.