Unlearn Your Pain (4th Edition) by Dr. Howard Schubiner
Dr. Howard Schubiner is one of the most important clinicians in the mind-body pain field today — and his name will already be familiar if you've read about the Boulder Back Pain Study, where he collaborated with Alan Gordon on the groundbreaking research behind Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
This book is his definitive guide to putting that science into practice — on your own, at home, in 28 days.
What It's About
Unlearn Your Pain challenges the conventional view of chronic pain by demonstrating, through cutting-edge research, that the underlying reason for most chronic pain is nerve sensitization and learned neural pathways in the brain — not actual tissue damage. Amazon
The program gives readers a wide range of tools to assess the causes of their pain and rewire the neural circuits driving it — including therapeutic writing exercises, online meditations, and methods for addressing stressful and traumatic life events. Penguin Books
Dr. Schubiner is an internist, director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Michigan, and a Clinical Professor at Michigan State University. He has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and has lectured internationally on the mind-body approach to pain. Goodreads
What Readers Say
Readers consistently describe this book as life-changing — "groundbreaking" and "essential reading" for anyone who has suffered from chronic pain or works with people who do. Many report that after trying countless unsuccessful treatments — medications, injections, physical therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic — they finally found lasting relief through Schubiner's protocol. Painpsychologycenter
Also by Dr. Schubiner
If chronic pain is intertwined with anxiety or depression for you — which it very often is — Schubiner's companion volume Unlearn Your Anxiety & Depression uses the same 28-day framework and evidence-based tools applied to emotional suffering. The two books share the same self-guided workbook program, so you only need one to get started.
