Unlearn Your Pain
The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression

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Praise for Unlearn Your Pain

"Dr. Howard Schubiner is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in understanding and overcoming chronic pain."
—Maria Shriver

"In Unlearn Your Pain, a master clinician provides a revolutionary approach to understanding and resolving chronic pain and related conditions--an approach as startling in its ingenious simplicity as it is reassuring in its reliance on the latest research about mind, brain and body."
—Gabor Maté M.D., author of The Myth of Normal

"Unlearn Your Pain will change everything you thought you knew about chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression."
—Rangan Chatterjee, MD., author of Make Change That Lasts

"Dr. Schubiner combines medicine and neuroscience to explain why most people with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and fatigue have neuroplastic, and therefore, reversible conditions. This book will change your life and the lives of those you care about."
—Monica Marie Fitzgerald, PhD., director at the Center for Resilience and Well-Being, University of Colorado Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science

"Unlearn Your Pain offers nothing less than liberation from suffering experienced by millions. The powerful examples, clear scientific concepts, research studies, and deep medical wisdom reveal a path to lives of freedom and clarity."
—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of Aware, Mind, Mindsight

"If you have chronic pain or other persistent symptoms, read this book. It just might change your life."
—Lorimer Moseley, DSc, PhD., author of Explain Pain and Explain Pain Supercharged

"As reflected in this well-written book, Howard Schubiner has devoted his career to relieving people of their physical pain by helping them reverse they ways they relate to it. He describes his approach in a way that is useful to both patients and clinicians and includes impressive research to back it up."
—Richard Schwartz Ph.D., developer of Internal Family Systems

"We often panic about pain, assigning it a horror that may not be warranted. I learned so much from Dr. Schubiner’s book about how our thinking is frequently more responsible than our bodies. This is a must read for anyone who is suffering with chronic pain and is a great blueprint for how to correct it."
—Mitch Albom, journalist and author of Tuesdays with Morrie

"This book combines Dr. Schubiner’s deep clinical expertise with scientific insights that have come to light only in the last few years. The result is an adept fusion of medical knowledge, neuroscientific principles, and illuminating case studies. It offers a transformative new way to understand chronic pain for patients and clinicians alike."
—Tor D. Wager, PhD, Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Dartmouth College

"An illuminating guide to addressing chronic conditions through practices that recognize the link between mind and body [. . .] Combining moving patient stories and extensive research, this will transform readers' understanding of the origin of pain."
—Publishers Weekly

"With a quarter of U.S. adults living with chronic pain, this can-do guide seems much needed."
—Booklist