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"Thank you for your email and attachment. I appreciate John Sarno's work on back pain. I was going to have breakfast with him the last time I was in New York. That being said I am a psychologist and understand the process of the somatic transfer of anxiety. I wish the person well who described his strategy with pelvic pain in your attachment. In my experience of treating thousands of patients with prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, this strategy mentioned in your attachment is not useful however theoretically viable it is. You cannot talk yourself out of trigger points in your quadratus lumborum that are causing severe testicular pain or trigger points in your anterior levator ani which are causing penile pain and post ejaculatory discomfort. In a way it is not helpful to tell people with pelvic pain to just get over it and focus on their psychological problems. Prostatitis/CPPS is a psychosomatic problem involving psyche and soma... both must be addressed. I say this as someone who had pelvic pain for over 20 years, who has been symptom free for many years and who tried everything. I know the problem from the inside as well as someone who deals with many people every day from all over the world who are desperate. This idea of telling people to treat their pelvic pain as TMS as John does with people with back pain in my opintion is not a service to people suffering from pelvic pain because when they fail to do be able to help themselves, they can blame themselves for their condition.... which I don't think is kind or helpful. If you have pelvic pain, try this method yourself and let me know honestly how it works for you."
David Wise, Ph.D.
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