John Sarno’s Healing Back Pain has inspired devotion bordering on the religious. A Seattle group dedicated to repetitive strain injuries reportedly disbanded after reading it and concluding their pain was psychosomatic. Larry David called his treatment “the closest thing to a religious experience.” The book’s promise: chronic pain might disappear once y…
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