While this is exciting work, I'm really terrified that the efficacy of this treatment will cause doctors to jump on this modality for a number of disorders it's

While this is exciting work, I'm really terrified that the efficacy of this treatment will cause doctors to jump on this modality for a number of disorders it's not really suited for, as what is happening with CBT. There are a number of treatments that are great if done with the right intent, but when they go into a mass treatment setting it loses connection with the humanistic portion. I could see doctors jumping to over prescribe this for pain or other conditions without listening to the patient or worse blaming the patient when the treatment didn't work for them, which is basically what's happening when say someone with physiological issues gets suckered into doing CBT for insomnia. I do think it's important we take these holistic approaches to pain relief but the medical institution and worse yet insurance will bungle this in the US and I'm scared for that :( But glad to learn of it since I can get a copy of John Samo's book. Another treatment that has shown anecdotal success for chronic pain is Internal Family Systems therapy. I feel like that one would be a lot harder to mess up.