Samuel Mann > Quotes

“Can gaining awareness of emotions repressed since childhood enable physical healing? This question has rarely been explored or even considered. In many, the barrier is profound, and was clearly necessary, and a blessing at the time.”
― Samuel Mann, Hidden Within Us: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection

“A history of traumatic stress during childhood was also associated with a 70 percent increase in the likelihood of hospitalization of adult patients with autoimmune conditions.3 Childhood maltreatment is also associated with elevation in adulthood of a widely studied marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein (CRP).”
― Samuel Mann, Hidden Within Us: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection

“repression is not psychopathology. It is a gift, a blessing of the human mind that, when operative, enables us to keep potentially overwhelming emotional distress out of our awareness, and prevents us from being overcome by fear or despair.”
― Samuel Mann, Hidden Within Us: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection