Can Resolving Emotional Trauma Ease Chronic Pain?

A new therapy teaches people to process their trauma as a way to treat chronic pain. Does it work?

Sarah Watts
Elemental
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8 min readJun 12, 2019

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HHuman beings have long sought to understand the basis of pain. Until the late 17th century, pain and disease were considered a byproduct of sin, or something a person endured to test their faith. But after philosopher…

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Sarah Watts
Elemental

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