Dr John Sarno
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Dr Sarno was Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, at the New York University School of Medicine and attending physician at the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center. He was a pioneer and provided the groundwork for the understanding of TMS. In spite of the thousands of people he helped becoming pain-free during his long career, he faced a lot of criticism from his colleagues.
He wrote:
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The Mindbody Prescription, Healing Back Pain and The Divided Mind
Dr Howard Schubiner
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Howard is an internist at Providence Hospital in Michigan and a professor at Michigan State University.
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He’s the author of Unlearn Your Pain in which using cutting-edge research he demonstrates that the underlying reason for much chronic pain is brain sensitization and learned neural pathways, rather than actual tissue damage. Dr Schubiner has used this new understanding to develop a unique program to reverse pain. He has also conducted research that shows the efficacy of this approach.
Georgie Oldfield
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Georgie is a physiotherapist and founder of SIRPA™ (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association), the first group in the UK & Europe to adopt the TMS approach to chronic pain treatment. SIRPA offers training to practitioners across the UK and also globally to help educate and spread the life-changing work of Dr Sarno and more recent pain specialists.
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Author of: Chronic Pain, Your Key to Recovery
David Clarke, M.D.
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Dr. David Clarke is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (EndChronicPain.org) and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus and Assistant Director of the Center for Ethics both at Oregon Health & Science University. He is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and at the Cummings Graduate Institute. He is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, and practiced in Portland, Oregon from 1984 to 2009. David Clarke has received numerous awards for excellence in patient care.
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Author of: They Can't Find Anything Wrong!
Dr David Hanscom, M.D.
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Dr. Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who was based in Seattle, WA for over 32 years. He retired from his practice in 2019 to focus on teaching people how to break loose from the grip of chronic mental and physical pain – with and without surgery.
“It was my observation that most spine surgery should never be performed. A significant part of my practice was helping patients out of a deep hole caused by multiple failed spine surgeries. I have learned that the central nervous system is the key player in the development of chronic pain. Unless it is addressed further, surgeries seldom are successful.”
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Author of: Bac In Control, A surgeon's roadmap out of chronic pain.
Alan Gordon
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Alan Gordon, is a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Centre in Los Angeles. He developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.
PRT is a system of psychological techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic pain.
The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free. What's more, these dramatic changes held up over time.
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Author of: The Way Out
Steven Ray Ozanich
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Steve Ozanich is a mind-body health consultant, life coach and author. Over the past 16 years, Steve has helped teach thousands of people how to heal themselves through his lectures, books, articles and interviews.
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Author of : The Great Pain Deception
Dr Gabor Maté
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After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in over thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness.
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Author of: When the Body Says No
Dr David Schechter
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David Schechter has served as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has lectured to patients, medical students, psychologists, and doctors around the region and nationally. He is the author of several books and medical articles.
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Author of: Think Away Your Pain
Dr Joe Dispenza
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Dr Dispenza holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is a Doctor of Chiropractic. His post graduate training includes the fields of neuroscience and neuroplasticity, quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, epigenetics, mind-body medicine, and brain/heart coherence. As a researcher, lecturer, author, and corporate consultant, his interest lies in demystifying the mystical so that people have all the tools within their reach to make measurable changes in their lives.
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Author of : You Are The Placebo
Nicole Sachs, LCSW
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Nicole Sachs is a speaker, writer, podcaster and psychotherapist who worked with
Dr Sarno and founded JournalSpeak. She has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain, symptoms, syndromes and conditions.
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Author of : The Meaning of Truth
Dr Stephen Porges, PH.D.
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Stephen is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that revolutionised mind-body medicine.
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Author of: The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
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Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator based in Boston, United States. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of
post-traumatic stress.
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Author of: The Body Keeps the Score