(And, since you tried, here's one way in which it works: the sub-cortex will restrict the flow of oxygen to a certain part of the body, in order to create pain to distract the person from subconscious rage, thoughts, emotions.  That's it.  The subconscious (which is what the sub-cortex is) views dealing with pain as better than dealing with overwhelming emotional and mental sh*t.  And that sh*t could be anything from real trauma to simple stress at work, and the pain ensuing can be just as serious or as relatively minor.)  

As for my physical injury, I have a paralyzed lower leg and foot from blowing out my back -- basically the most serious result of a ruptured disc.  I understand what a serious injury is.  As does my brain.  A year ago, I could not have stood up for more than ten minutes without being in so much pain I would start to shudder (and this was three years AFTER surgery).  I suffered from a myriad of pain sydromes that were all debilitating at one point or another.  And I had suffered like this since I was a child.  From back, to ulcer pain, to headaches, allergies, you name it.  I was healed because I finally found the CORRECT DIAGNOSIS.  This is not alternative medicine, it is medicine period, that is concerned with treating the CAUSE of them pain, not simply the pain (symptom) itself.  That this diagnosis was not even considered by regular doctors and medicine is, to me, inexcusable.

You see, here's the thing.  When I had back surgery, my surgeon remarked in the recovery room to me how truly ugly it was in there.  It looked like I'd had disk herniations and ruptures in the dozens over the years, with tons of calcified disc material in there.  And that's the rub.  You can find that material in people who have never had any back problems, and you can find it in people like me, who suffered for decades.  There's no real correlation.  And there was no real correlation between all that damage and my back and the pain I had felt and which had debilitated me.  But while ulcers were the fad in the in the mid 20th century, bad backs are the rage now.  But, as Dr. Sarno says, the human spine has evolved over millions of years, is the strongest most durable part of the human body, it has to be, and it has served us well -- but we're supposed to believe that in the last twenty or thirty years, the human spine has just fallen apart?  

And don't even start me on Fibromyalgia, which modern medicine is clueless and cruel about -- with its bullsh*t "secondary gain" paradigm, which teaches patients that the pain is all physical but that they are also gaining something from it which makes it continue -- sympathy, break from work, whatever.

That is malpractice of the worst kind.

Take a look at Sarno's work.  Look at his experience and credentials.  Read up on psychosomatic medicine and its history.  Read up on the brain.  Specifically the sub-cortex, which controls things like the autonomic nervous system, the autonomic peptide system, and the like.  And read Freud, who more than a hundred years ago was doing his own research and came incredibly close to figuring it out.  

Most unfortunately, too many people have been brainwashed into thinking they are frail and helpless, that their emotional and mental lives are simply not a factor in the causation of pain or other maladies, when in reality they are just the opposite.  Too many people reject this diagnosis because it does not fit their paradigm -- that every physical pain or malady is just a function of humans being machines with broken parts.

We are more than machines with parts, we are emotional creatures.  And those emotions, and the subconscious mind that stores the most unbearably painful of those, is a powerful organ.  The most powerful in the body.  

Really, this is what happens when you let government have control over something that should be between you and your doctor.

That is your argument against national health care??? Non-sequitur with some spin added.

The DEA would not be the one's regulating a National Health Care Program.