This is a complicated topic and I think discussion on this topic on a forum like this, there ends up being a divide between folks who impulsively write off Schu

This is a complicated topic and I think discussion on this topic on a forum like this, there ends up being a divide between folks who impulsively write off Schubiner and Sarno as 'quacks' and folks who have had chronic pain and out of sheer desperation do end up going to Schubiner & Sarno and trying the remedies that are not scientifically vetted, or validated in clinical trials -- and yet finding that they are helped more than conventional medicine. Scott mentions it in his essay: the amazon review page with overwhelming and effusive praise of Sarno's book by people who were helped is hard to ignore. The theory by Schubiner is basically that some unexplained pains may be rooted in psychophysiologic etiology, and therefore require intervention of, among other things, psychological varieties. The good news is, finally, large institutions around the world are getting around to conducting randomized controlled trials to evaluate methods proposed by Sarno et al. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34589642/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34589642/). They're seeing interesting results, that psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy helps folk manage and relieve their pain to varying degrees.