Pain Reprocessing Therapy - Dr Yoni Ashar

Dr Yoni Ashar studies psychological treatments for pain that doesn't go away. He also has an interest in the brain mechanisms of placebo effects, meditation, and empathy and uses functional MRI and machine learning to investigate these.

In this video we discuss how pain is not always related to injury or damage in our body. Pain can form from a mistaken prediction of bodily harm - like an overly sensitive car alarm that goes off when a bird lands on the roof.
We dive into his ground-breaking research on pain reprocessing therapy which uses an interoception-based exercise called somatic tracking in combination with building evidence that you are safe in your body to help dramatically reduce or even elimination persistent pain.

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[LillyTheLonelySock]

Can you please post the pain reprocessing therapy sessions here on YouTube for those of us who don't have access to it? Thanks.

[joellabrie-kibk]

There is one notable flaw in the study I cannot resist highlighting: the control groups are kind of terrible. They can’t really “control” anything.

Ashar et al. told the people in the placebo group that the injections were saline solution, so … yeah, not actually a placebo control there.4

And the usual-care group had the same problem they always do: you can do literally anything to people that’s “unusual, ” and it will probably outperform “usual, ” and that doesn’t mean it’s effective. Dr. Edzard Ernst called this design “unethical pseudo-science.”

[ankitkumar-ezff]

I dont get why you constantly need to express your opinions and that too in detail instead of asking questions and letting Yoni speak. I was hoping to learn more about PRT from Yoni than your opinions.