Crushing Doubt: An Advanced System for Mind-Body Pain and Symptom Relief

by Dan Ratner

Building on the legacy of Dr. John Sarno, Crushing Doubt provides the most comprehensive system to date to eradicate pain and other symptoms. Dr. Dan Ratner shows why most symptoms aren’t medical, structural, or even merely physical. The pain and symptoms aren’t in your head…they’re from your head.

In this book, you’ll
• Dr. Dan’s inspiring story of recovery
• The science and logic supporting mind-body thinking
• Ways to recognize your symptom causes
• Techniques to control or resolve your acute symptoms
• Methods to change your thinking to alleviate chronic symptoms
• Answers to important questions about pain and other symptoms
• Action steps with lasting solutions to address mind-body problems
• Information and strategies to crush doubts about your recovery
• Methods to expand and enhance your emotional self-awareness
• A guide to understand the story of your past and move beyond it
• Pathways to find your intrinsic power and inner peace
• Resolutions to seeming contradictions in mind-body beliefs

DR. DAN RATNER is a leading expert in mind-body psychology. After his recovery from eight-years of chronic back pain, Dr. Dan’s online seminars, groups, and consultations have helped thousands of symptom sufferers around the world. Visit www.crushingdoubt.com to learn more, or check out the Crushing Doubt Podcast on Youtube or Apple Podcasts.

Dan is from Shaker Heights, Ohio. He received his B.A. from Brown University and Psy.D. from Widener University.

382 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2025

Reviews

[rahhhhj · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, clearly written by an extremely intelligent person. Ratner manages to make something that you could easily dismiss as hokey dokey nonsense into a very valid and logical argument. I was amazed at how he managed to put synthesize this knowledge. It took me years shadow work and thought to graze the surface of what he mentions in the book. Most of all, what he says JUST MAKES SENSE! If you and a doctor can't find a structural reason for pain that you are definitely experiencing, it must go beyond physical bounds.

Such a simple idea, yet it is so dearly resisted. I'm extremely excited for the future of this work and the discourse that will ensue as this will inevitably become a part of care going forward.