Recommended Books for
Understanding and Healing MBS

Mind-Body Healing Books

The Mindbody Prescription, Healing Back Pain, The Divided Mind -- John Sarno

Unlearn Your Pain; Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression -- Howard Schubiner:

Back in Control – David Hanscom

Think Away your Pain – David Schechter

Chronic pain: Your key to recovery – Georgie Oldfield

They Can’t Find Anything Wrong – David Clarke

Back Sense - Ronald Siegel

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion -- Christopher Germer

Mind-Body Books for Professionals

Psychophysiologic Disorders: Trauma-informed, interprofessional diagnosis and treatment – Editors, Clarke, Abbass, Schubiner, Smith-Clark

Hidden From View – Allan Abbass and Howard Schubiner

Books on the Science of Mind-Body Conditions

How Emotions are Made – Lisa Feldman Barrett

From Paralysis to Fatigue: A history of psychosomatic medicine -- Edward Shorter

The Illusion of Conscious Will -- Daniel Wegner

The Adaptive Unconscious -- Timothy Wilson

Brain Lock -- Jeffrey Schwartz

Stumbling onto Happiness -- Daniel Gilbert

The Emotional Brain -- Joseph Le Doux

The Biology of Belief -- Bruce Lipton

The Brain that Changes Itself -- Norman Doidge

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain -- Sharon Begley

Snake Oil Science -- R. Barker Bausell

Stabbed in the Back -- Nortin Hadler

Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses -- Andrew Malleson

Self Help Books

The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the search for meaning - Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham

Sanity, Insanity, and Common Sense -- Enrique Suarez

Slowing Down to the Speed of Life -- Joe Bailey

You Can Be Happy No Matter What -- Richard Carlson

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness -- Joel ben Izzy

The Places that Scare You -- Pema Chodron

Facing the Fire -- John Lee

The Power of Now -- Eckhart Tolle

Full Catastrophe Living -- Jon Kabat-Zinn

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself - Shad Helmstetter

The Secret Code of Success - Noah St. John

The Presence Process -- Michael Brown

Writing to Heal -- James Pennebaker