Having been a convert of Dr Sarno's mind-body approach for over a year, I purchased the workbook thinking it would take me to a new level of implementing Sarno's concepts. Hardly! I found the workbook far less useful than the recommendation in Sarno's Divided Mind book and terribly overpriced for what it provided.

I found this workbook very helpful. I was in extreme pain from my back. By following the excercises and keeping a journal like format, I was able to shift the focus from the physical to the psychological. Not easy at all, but once you realize the pain is a cover up for what your not dealing with, the realization helps gradually ease the pain.



Dr. Schecter is very inciteful and provides a methodical approach to dealing with the elimination of pain. You must be patient. The MindBody connection is very strong and this book helps you uncover alot of what your mind masks.



After working with this workbook, I was pain free in about 6 weeks.



I highly recommend it as a tool to help refocus your thought patterns and eliminate your pain.

I found this workbook very helpful. I was in extreme pain from my back. By following the excercises and keeping a journal like format, I was able to shift the focus from the physical to the psychological. Not easy at all, but once you realize the pain is a cover up for what your not dealing with, the realization helps gradually ease the pain.

Dr. Schecter is very inciteful and provides a methodical approach to dealing with the elimination of pain. You must be patient. The MindBody connection is very strong and this book helps you uncover alot of what your mind masks.

After working with this workbook, I was pain free in about 6 weeks.

I highly recommend it as a tool to help refocus your thought patterns and eliminate your pain.

I have just started to use the workbook, which is supposed to be used in 30 day program. Very interested questions are put to the reader to make him/her think about elements which might be the reason for TMS or TMS like disorders (alergy...). But what to do with answers? Can I analise them by myself? I am afraid, that something is missing here. One might expect, that in a last chapter a roadmap of disorders could be found, or maybe results of analises of answers to the same questions made by experts, that I could just put my self-diagnosis into certain group.
Nevertheless I read dr. Sarno's book on TMS, I am still an amateur, not able to identify my problems. Or maybe I should write this review after 3 weeks...

The other review that stated you could write your thoughts in your own journal is correct. This is quite an expensive badly put together "writing tablet". While the idea of getting to the source of pain is good - it shouldn't cost as much as it did for something you can do on your own. This really isn't very helpful and seems like a creative way for someone to take advantage of people in pain.

The other review that stated you could write your thoughts in your own journal is correct. This is quite an expensive badly put together "writing tablet". While the idea of getting to the source of pain is good - it shouldn't cost as much as it did for something you can do on your own. This really isn't very helpful and seems like a creative way for someone to take advantage of people in pain.

If you suffer from chronic back pain, give this a go, what do you have to lose. It worked for me after a year of hell and near immobility.

This is a structured approach to figuring out the psychological causes for your pain. It really works.

What more can I say, I have resumed all activities and new ones to boot. I never consider my back before trying something anymore. This has been a complete about turn.

JG

"I'm a chiropractor and interested in the totality of healing--mechanical, chemical, and psychological. I find that Dr. Schechter's 'MindBody Workbook' is unique in that in provides a simple, easy to follow, format for my patients to focus their energies on healing emotionally. The workbook is concise and to the point. The questions provide a starting point for journalling and gently guide the patient to deeper levels of emotional insight.

In my experience, and the research supports this, the emotional healing greatly enhances the structural and chemical healing. It all works together. This helps my treatments be more effective.

Compared to even a single psychotherapy session, the price is a bargain. I highly recommend the book for psychological insight and emotional healing."

Gerald Edwards, D.C., Q.M.E. Los Angeles

After reading all the great reviews, I must say that I was disappointed with this book. You can get the same effect by just writing in a diary every day about how you feel about the pain, what it prevents you from doing, how others responded to you, etc. I also thought it was overpriced. I returned it.

I am inspired by Dr. Schechter's devotion to helping those who suffer from chronic physical discomfort.

Dr. Schechter has taken the Mindbody wisdom we are all getting familiar with and developed a step by step approach to assist anyone wanting to increase their physical and emotional sense of well being. The workbook is wonderful, full of information and great advice! It is essentially a guided journal and done in such a way that I often felt, in reading it, that Dr. Schechter was sitting and talking directly with me. His conversational style is personable, supportive, constructive and well paced.

The importance of developing ways to work with our growing knowledge of the mindbody connection cannot be underestimated. Dr. Schechter has made an invaluable contribution by writing The Mindbody Workbook.

I recommend this book for anyone who tends to experience physical symtoms in reaction to life stressors. I also recommend this book to therapists who might want to recommend journaling to clients, as a way of helping them track and respond to their own emotions.

Having read David Schechter's book, The MindBody Workbook, I can say that Dr. Schechter has developed a novel and low risk approach to the treatment of a problem that has confounded modern medicine.

The Western approach to medicine and healing is based in science and hard evidence. In essence: what we cannot measure, we do not accept. Dr. Schechter's approach is more integrative in its approach to pain and the fact that pain is perceived in the mind.

A person's perception of pain is not readily measureable. The mind has many secrets yet to be revealed. By putting the reader into a higher state of awareness with their own feelings and emotions, Dr. Schechter has hit on a novel treatment that has zero side effects and could be revolutionary in its simplicity and elegance to the treatment of chronic pain.

I highly recommned this workbook to all those in pain who have not found relief from their physicians. You have nothing to lose but your pain.

Sincerely,

L. Mason Shih, MD Family Practice Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Schechter's workbook is an excellent way to learn about your chronic pain or illness and get in touch with the emotions that might be causing the problem. Effective 30-day program with room for reflection and writing. A great way to get to know your mind and its influence on your body! A must-use tool for anyone who has not found relief for their pain or illness through treatment by conventional medical practices. I will recommend it to all of my clients.

I can highly recommend Dr. David Schechter's MindBody Workbook. A number of my psychotherapy patients who have been diagnosed with TMS have found the Workbook a useful tool. It has helped them in their efforts to become more aware of the feelings which are fueling their pain by providing them with a structure for paying attention to their inner states and their reactions to past and present events in their lives. This increased ability to be aware has been accompanied by relief of pain.