Change your brain, change your pain

Change your brain, change your pain Breaking the doom loop to heal chronic physical and emotional pain

Daniel G. Amen

Book - 2025

"In the United States alone, one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For too long, when a doctor couldn't find the source of frequent pain, the patient was dismissively told, 'It's all in your head.' Today, we know that our somatic responses to trauma, anxiety, and depression create real suffering, and that physical pain can lead to trauma, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this 'the doom loop'--the dance between physical and emotional pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom loop into a healing loop, and in this ... book, he shows us how"--

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Subjects
Chronic pain > Alternative treatment > Popular works.
Pain > Alternative treatment > Popular works.
Mentally ill > Care > Popular works.
Mental health > Popular works.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Daniel G. Amen (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xiv, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-440) and index.
ISBN
9780063426702
  • Author's note : Unlocking your brain's healing potential
  • Introduction : From doom to hope : the self-perpetuating doom and healing loops and the dance between physical and emotional pain
  • How your brain controls your pain : the purpose of pain, why, and where we really hurt
  • Soothing pain : the four circles of aggravating or soothing physical and emotional pain
  • Think right to feel right : pain-producing versus pain-soothing thought patterns
  • Releasing tension and repressed emotions : muscle tension and trauma versus calmness and clarity
  • Less pain, less fear, more good habits : better brain, better life
  • Hope and perpetuating the healing loop : rewiring your way out of pain
  • Change your brain, change your pain diet : eat right to feel right
  • Innovative treatments for pain : how light, magnetic fields, and electricity can reset your brain.

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