Sara Lou O’Connor’s research into emotion-
Sara Lou O’Connor’s work in humanistic medicine led her to Norman Cousins, whose 1979 Anatomy of an Illness wakened the medical community to the importance of emotions in medical diagnosis and treatment. Cousins’s book led to the creation of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and also inspired Sarno’s first book, Mind Over Back Pain (1982).
Inspired by the Simonton’s, oncologist and surgeon Bernie Siegel wrote Love, Medicine & Miracles (1986), opening the way for discussions of emotions in a medical community that had become focused solely on technology and pharmacology.
The roots of their work traces back to Cannon, Selye, and Wolff, whose medical research provided the foundational physiological studies that led to the modern science of mainstream medicine.
Decades of research about the lives and work of emotion-
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